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Idaho, crisis standards of care

Uploaded 17-09-21

Population, 1.8 million

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/16/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

Hospitals allowed to ration care

Expands its “crisis standards of care” criteria

Idaho Department of Health, Dave Jeppesen

The situation is dire

We don’t have enough resources to adequately treat the patients in our hospitals, whether you are there for COVID-19 or a heart attack or because of a car accident

Allows prioritization

Potentially deny care, based on who they think will benefit most

In other words, someone who is otherwise healthy and would recover more rapidly may get treated or have access to a ventilator before someone who is not likely to recover

FDA discission on US booster doses

Immunocompromised, 2 million already boosted

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