suzi frase in arizona

Be required to wear a mask.

### suzi frase... a lexington nurse who first helped battle the pandemic on the front lines in new york...is on the move again...this time in arizona.

It's become another hot spot in the country...and as abc 36's bobbi mcswine tells us...frase is worried it's going to get worse before it gets better.

#### "at the moment it feels like the calm before the storm."

Suzi frase says she wasn't plantaking any more travel assignments after new york...but when hotspots starting poppiing up across the country...she got three job offers...one with mountain vista medical hospital in arizona...and she took it.

"suzy frase: all the covid numbers here just keep climbing through the roof.

As you walk down the hall and there's an empty bed and an empty bed and an empty bed, but then you knowr of time.

Within two weeks probably we're going to start filling up."

Frase says the bright side is the hospital isn't short on supplies or staff right now...but she says it'll have to make some adjustments in treatment if things get worse.

"this hospital they have absolutely no idea what they're in for.

They're going to have to learn the hard way just like new york learned the hard way where they're like okay things that usually work that are normal are not going to work anymore."

Frase says the problem isn't limited to inside the hospital walls...but also...the re-opening process across the country.

"ideally we wouldn't have any businesses open."

....and some people's choice to not wear masks.

"if everyone wore a mask anytime they were out and if they were even cautious with the people in their close circles.

We could cut it down significantly."he's happy to hep wherever she's needed...but is finding her new assignment a hard pill to swallow.

"i definitely notice already that i'm going to have to be really specific about some self-care to try to get myself through this one because it's not just the inevitable, this all was preventable, so i notice i do have a harder time this time around."

Bobbi mcswine, abc 36 news.

###### they are now a requirement to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, but do they work?

Do face coverings, or masks, really keep you safe from requirement to