Collected Item: “Idaho and the Overrun Hospitals”
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Idaho and the Overrun Hospitals
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News Article
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Idaho hospitals are so overrun with Covid patients and so understaffed that they are drowning. Idaho has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation and many people are getting sick. Many hospitals on the border Idaho shares with Washington are choosing to send their sick patients to Washington. This in turn is adding to the burden carried in Eastern Washington. Many healthcare workers in Idaho are burnt out and they are helpless because of the divisiveness caused by politics and Covid.
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#Idaho, #Washington, #CBS, #hospitals, #healthcare, #nurses, #crisis
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/web/20211008191422/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-health-care-workers-covid/
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CBS Mornings
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2021-10-08