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In COVID-slammed Idaho, schools risk buckling hospitals

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When Idaho public health officials announced this week that northern hospitals were so crowded with coronavirus patients that they would be allowed to ration health care, roughly 11,000 kids in Coeur d'Alene were packing lunches, climbing on buses or grabbing backpacks for their first day of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

In COVID-slammed Idaho, schools risk buckling hospitals

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When Idaho public health officials announced this week that northern hospitals were so crowded with coronavirus patients that they would be allowed to ration health care, roughly 11,000 kids in Coeur d'Alene were packing lunches, climbing on buses or grabbing backpacks for their first day of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho patients in hospital halls amid COVID rationed care

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Amid the Idaho coronavirus surge that prompted officials to authorize hospitals to ration health care, Army soldiers sent to one hospital have traded their fatigues for personal protective equipment to help treat a flood of infected patients.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

In COVID-slammed Idaho, schools risk buckling hospitals

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When Idaho public health officials announced this week that northern hospitals were so crowded with coronavirus patients that they would be allowed to ration health care, roughly 11,000 kids in Coeur d'Alene were packing lunches, climbing on buses or grabbing backpacks for their first day of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho patients in hospital halls amid COVID rationed care

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Amid the Idaho coronavirus surge that prompted officials to authorize hospitals to ration health care, Army soldiers sent to one hospital have traded their fatigues for personal protective equipment to help treat a flood of infected patients.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

In COVID-slammed Idaho, schools risk buckling hospitals

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When Idaho public health officials announced this week that northern hospitals were so crowded with coronavirus patients that they would be allowed to ration health care, roughly 11,000 kids in Coeur d'Alene were packing lunches, climbing on buses or grabbing backpacks for their first day of …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho patients in hospital halls amid COVID rationed care

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Amid the Idaho coronavirus surge that prompted officials to authorize hospitals to ration health care, Army soldiers sent to one hospital have traded their fatigues for personal protective equipment to help treat a flood of infected patients.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho patients in hospital halls amid COVID rationed care

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Amid the Idaho coronavirus surge that prompted officials to authorize hospitals to ration health care, Army soldiers sent to one hospital have traded their fatigues for personal protective equipment to help treat a flood of infected patients.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Officials: Health care rationing could spread across Idaho

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's move to “crisis standards of care” is allowing some hospitals to ration health care as they struggle with an onslaught of coronavirus patients, and officials are warning the procedures could spread statewide. But the main hospital affected by the designation was already operating under extreme …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Idaho enacts crisis hospital care standards amid COVID surge

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders activated “crisis standards of care” for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

'Loss of hope': Idaho hospitals crushed by COVID-19 surge

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The intensive care rooms at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: All unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged or younger, reliant on life support and locked in a silent …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

'Loss of hope': Idaho hospitals crushed by COVID-19 surge

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The intensive care rooms at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: All unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged or younger, reliant on life support and locked in a silent …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

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