Bradley K. Sherman wrote

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> | ...
> | Idaho hit a grim COVID-19 trifecta this week, reaching
> | record numbers of emergency room visits, hospitalizations
> | and ICU patients. Medical experts say the deeply
> | conservative state will likely see 30,000 new infections a
> | week by mid-September.
> |
> | With a critical shortage of hospital beds and staff and one
> | of the nation's lowest vaccination rates, Idaho health
> | providers are growing desperate and preparing to follow
> | crisis standards of care, which call for giving scarce
> | resources to patients most likely to survive.
> |
> | St. Luke's Boise Medical Center invited The Associated
> | Press into its restricted ICUs this week in hopes that
> | sharing the dire reality would prompt people to change
> | their behavior.
> |
> | "There is so much loss here, and so much of it is
> | preventable. I'm not just talking about loss of life.
> | Ultimately, it's like loss of hope," said Dr. Jim Souza,
> | chief medical officer. "When the vaccines came out in
> | December, those of us in health care were like, 'Oh, my
> | God, it's like the cavalry coming over the hill.' ... To
> | see now what's playing out? It's all so needless."
> | ...
> <https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-idaho-
09941b507483a5c7b0183dcbf03a8254>
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> --bks
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