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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2020, file photo, Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, right, answers a question about the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine in Arizona as he holds a news conference as Arizona Department of Health Services Director Dr. Cara Christ listens in Phoenix. What began as a single case of a new coronavirus infecting a person affiliated with Arizona State University on Jan. 26 turned into a vast outbreak afflicting hundreds of thousands of Arizonans that had killed nearly 8,000 by the end of the year. The coronavirus pandemic was Arizona's top news story of the year. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)

Health officials: Arizona COVID-19 triage care again likely

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

This Dec. 2020, photo, provided by Banner Health shows a refrigerator truck trailer in use at Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix, one of the Phoenix-based hospital chain's hospitals to augment its morgue. Arizonans need to &quot;shrink their circles&quot; of personal contacts and gatherings to help the state's health care system from being overrun by the state's current surge of COVID-19 cases, a senior official of the major hospital chain says. State and local governments also need to do more to reduce the coronavirus's spread, the effect of which has forced one of Banner Health's hospitals to start using a refrigerated truck trailer to augment its now-full morgue, said Dr. Marjorie Bessel, the Phoenix-based hospital chain's chief clinical officer. (Banner Health via AP)

Arizona continues string of record COVID-19 hospitalizations

By PAUL DAVENPORT - Associated Press

Hospital official: Limit Thanksgiving crowd to curb COVID

By PAUL DAVENPORT - Associated Press