Commonground
Senior Moderator
10/27/20
Excerpt:
The Department of Health and Welfare notes that 272 Idahoans are currently receiving hospital treatment for COVID-19. That’s a record high, as is the 75 who are in intensive care.
“We are in a crisis with our health care system in Idaho due to the pandemic,” Little said during a news conference from Boise. “Hospitals throughout the state are quickly filling up and way too many health care workers are out sick with COVID.”
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“In Boise, the veterans home is so full, leaders there are prepared to bring in a mobile hospital to treat new patients,” he said.
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Of the 2,444 Idahoans who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, 39 percent are under the age of 60. Forty of the 580 deaths have also involved people under 60.
-full article: https://lmtribune.com/coronavirus/i...cle_baa0e0b5-87b7-5cc2-9cff-847b6feea2f9.html
Excerpt:
The Department of Health and Welfare notes that 272 Idahoans are currently receiving hospital treatment for COVID-19. That’s a record high, as is the 75 who are in intensive care.
“We are in a crisis with our health care system in Idaho due to the pandemic,” Little said during a news conference from Boise. “Hospitals throughout the state are quickly filling up and way too many health care workers are out sick with COVID.”
-snip-
“In Boise, the veterans home is so full, leaders there are prepared to bring in a mobile hospital to treat new patients,” he said.
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Of the 2,444 Idahoans who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, 39 percent are under the age of 60. Forty of the 580 deaths have also involved people under 60.
-full article: https://lmtribune.com/coronavirus/i...cle_baa0e0b5-87b7-5cc2-9cff-847b6feea2f9.html