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  • Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge

    09/07/2021 6:19:59 PM PDT · by Callahan · 127 replies
    AP ^ | 9/8/21 | Rebecca Boone
    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.