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  • ‘We don’t have any vaccinated patients here.’ Idaho hospitals crushed by COVID-19 surge

    09/04/2021 6:53:29 AM PDT · by mac_truck · 162 replies
    Oregon Live (via AP) ^ | 9/3/21 | Associated Press
    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 struggle against COVID-19. But watch for a moment, and glimpses of who they were before the coronavirus become clear. Artfully inked tattoos cover the tanned forearm of a man in his 30s. An expectant mother’s slightly swollen belly is briefly revealed as a nurse adjusts her position. The young woman...