Hot spots around country reporting critical low level of oxygen supplies (KYMA, KECY/NBC) - Oxygen supplies are at critical lows in COVID-19 hot spots around the country. Hospital administrators in Arizona and California are reporting oxygen use up to four times the pre-COVID rate. It's a resource scarcity not originally anticipated by medical staff, with one doctor telling reporters that lack of oxygen wasn't even something his staff thought they needed to worry about. In some cases, oxygen is running out entirely--sending staff to scramble for resources. "We had COVID people admitted just sitting in triage chairs didn't even have a bed for them, and they're like 'hey this is our last oxygen tank, like portable oxygen' and so I was like that was not something that was on my radar either in my hospital and so we were able to scramble and find a whole bunch more but you know within our system,” said Dr. Brandon Lawrence, West Valley ER Physician.