COVID-19. Only Wyoming and West Virginia have lower vaccination rates. COVID-19: 3 hospitals in Washington state’s Okanogan County ‘stretched to the limit’ Crisis care standards mean that scarce resources like ICU beds will be allotted to the patients most likely to survive.
Other patients will be treated with less effective methods or, in dire cases, given pain relief and other palliative care.Thursday’s move came a week after Idaho officials started allowing health care rationing at hospitals in northern parts of the state.“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,” Idaho Department of.