In this Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 file photo Ann Enderle R.N. attends to a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Idaho's public health officials say crisis standards of care are "imminent" for the state's most populated region as hospitals in the Boise area continue to be overrun with unvaccinated coronavirus patients. Hospitals in the northern half of the state were given permission to begin rationing car…
September 17, 2021
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COVID-19 surge forces health care rationing in parts of West
In another ominous sign about the spread of the delta variant, Idaho public health leaders on Thursday expanded health care rationing statewide