Mounting coronavirus cases are straining hospitals and causing the states to take drastic measures.
On Tuesday, the Idaho Department of Health announced that it had
One hospital in northern Idaho, Kootenai Health, has been so overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases that the hospital stopped non-emergency surgeries, declined hundreds of transfer patients from other hospitals in recent months and converted a conference room to patient care after running out of bed space.— in different ways, but the idea is to give health care professionals guidance on which patients to prioritize as well as provide legal protection as they make such tough choices.
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