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Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge
AP ^ | 9/8/21 | Rebecca Boone

Posted on 09/07/2021 6:19:59 PM PDT by Callahan

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.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly announced it in a statement Tuesday morning — warning residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalized.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: apepee; coronavirus; covid; covid19; covid1984; fakenews; flubras; flubros; idaho; justacold; justtheflu; pandemic; rationing; realityisaharsh; rebeccaboone; teacher; thefullcourtpress
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To: Cold Heart

The percentage of Oregon’s population fully vaccinated is 58.47%. Are you sure your county has a 83% vaccination rate? If you live in Hood River County, it is 70.6% fully vaccinated. Multnomah County is 67.5% fully vaccinated. Benton County is 65.3% fully vaccinated. Washington County is 63.9% fully vaccinated.

Go here for the numbers and county rankings:

https://stacker.com/stories/11862/counties-highest-covid-19-vaccination-rate-oregon


81 posted on 09/07/2021 9:09:30 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: jonrick46

6.4 is too low. Delta is probably 10-12.

No one knows the herd immunity magic number.

“Vaccinated people who caught COVID-19 also had a 40% lower viral load during their infection, compared with unvaccinated people.

“If you were at least partially vaccinated, you had less virus in you for a shorter period of time than those that hadn’t been vaccinated, which means that they would be less likely to be passing the virus on to anyone else,” said researcher Dr. Jefferey Burgess, associate dean for research at the University of Arizona’s College of Public Health, in Tucson.

According to Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in Baltimore, the findings “should give people a lot of confidence about COVID-19 vaccines. When the very rare breakthrough infections occur they are really not clinically meaningful, as the severity and infectiousness is greatly attenuated — even in not fully vaccinated individuals.”

The study involved 3,975 health care workers, first responders and other essential and front-line employees who were prioritized for receiving an mRNA vaccine. Participants included 3,179 adults who got one or two shots, along with 796 people who went unvaccinated.”

https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=261176


82 posted on 09/07/2021 9:15:56 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: jonrick46

I checked, it’s the over 65 that is 83% in my county.


83 posted on 09/07/2021 9:20:23 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Jane Long
I don't think that was your original question - the ‘unvaxed’ part anyway.

I didn't change the subject, and I didn't bring up the subject, I merely agreed, that yes it probably was a true story.

However, I will answer your NEW question - regarding specifically ‘unvaxxed’

My answer, if I were in charge, is: think M.A.S.H.
When crisis triage is in effect, those most likely to survive with intervention get the blue x, and those not likely to survive get the yellow x, with a slight bias for the kids. The blue x gets the ICU bed and all the cool machines, the yellow x gets the bed in the parking garage tent with less equipment and lower skilled nursing but made as comfortable as possible. Prognosis and preexisting Advance Directive would take precedence, not vaccination status.

84 posted on 09/07/2021 9:32:59 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Cold Heart

That’s a good vaccination number for the over 65 year-olds. Now they have to understand the health of their immune system. A number of factors can cause a suppressed immune system. If a person has one of those factors, the primed immunity from the vaccination may not work well enough to hold off serious illness. They need to know how they can protect themself from exposure to the virus.


85 posted on 09/07/2021 9:35:40 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: bboise

Can you use an online pharmacy? There is something seriously wrong when the government demands only one course of action.


86 posted on 09/07/2021 10:40:03 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: jonrick46

Why are you posting erroneous info about the Idaho vaccination rate? It’s 40%, not 10% like you claim! I expect this from the MSM but not on FR, FFS!


87 posted on 09/07/2021 10:48:30 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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To: MarMema

Great. Now post something to do with the 100 million Americans who survived Covid and what their levels of immunity are. The studies are out there. It’s simply not a “vaccinated or not vaccinated” issue, and it’s disingenuous for you to ignore such a huge segment of the population.


88 posted on 09/07/2021 10:54:42 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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To: Prince of Space

I was mistaken. The correct numbers I posted at Post #60. Sorry to raise your ire.


89 posted on 09/07/2021 11:29:43 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Mark17
Yep

How're y'doin' ?

90 posted on 09/08/2021 12:52:23 AM PDT by knarf (qa)
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To: knarf
How're y'doin' ?

Still in the same house we were in when you visited us. 😀 My asawa has expanded her businesses. 👍

91 posted on 09/08/2021 4:19:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: Callahan

957 cases with 30 hospitalization in Idaho

Total popuation of Idaho: 1.787 million

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/idaho-covid-cases.html

So once again the fake news fear porn is nonsense.


92 posted on 09/08/2021 6:35:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: jonrick46

False. The vac rate s not 10% in Idaho. It is significantly higher. It runs close to 50% in the northern part of the sate. The same place they are having this “hospitalization crisis”.

When you just have to make up numbers to try and justify your emotion based opinion, you are just lying

https://data.news-leader.com/covid-19-vaccine-tracker/idaho/16/


93 posted on 09/08/2021 6:38:38 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Callahan

Rationed healthcare is expected under the socialist model.


94 posted on 09/08/2021 6:39:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Mark17

Sari sari and bakery and restaurant ... right ?


95 posted on 09/08/2021 7:09:49 AM PDT by knarf (qa)
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To: jonrick46

“Idaho has a 10% vaccination rate”

40% in Idaho are fully vaccinated
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker


96 posted on 09/08/2021 7:13:39 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: knarf
Sari sari and bakery and restaurant ... right ?

Affirmative sir. 👍

97 posted on 09/08/2021 8:05:26 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: Mark17

You are correct sir!


98 posted on 09/08/2021 8:19:19 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Callahan

So far I haven’t seen anyone make the connection between Southern Idaho and the overlarge mexican population already there.

Welcome to the northland cuzn Paco! Nice tattoo and bitchin’AR!!


99 posted on 09/08/2021 8:24:26 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

👍😀


100 posted on 09/08/2021 10:27:57 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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