Current Events > Nothern Idaho activated crisis standards of care due to covid surge

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https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/news/idaho-activates-crisis-standards-care-north-idaho-due-surge-covid-19-patients-requiring

Crisis standards of care are guidelines that help healthcare providers and systems decide how to deliver the best care possible under the extraordinary circumstances of an overwhelming disaster or public health emergency. The guidelines may be used when there are not enough healthcare resources to provide the usual standard of care to people who need it. The goal of crisis standards of care is to extend care to as many patients as possible and save as many lives as possible.

We have reached an unprecedented and unwanted point in the history of our state. We have taken so many steps to avoid getting here, but yet again we need to ask more Idahoans to choose to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. More Idahoans need to choose to receive the vaccine so we can minimize the spread of the disease and reduce the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, many of which involve younger Idahoans and are preventable with safe and effective vaccines, Governor Brad Little said.

When crisis standards of care are in effect, people who need medical care may experience care that is different from what they expect. For example, patients admitted to the hospital may find that hospital beds are not available or are in repurposed rooms (such as a conference room) or that needed equipment is not available.

Crisis standards of care is a last resort. It means we have exhausted our resources to the point that our healthcare systems are unable to provide the treatment and care we expect, said DHW Director Dave Jeppesen. This is a decision I was fervently hoping to avoid. The best tools we have to turn this around is for more people to get vaccinated and to wear masks indoors and in outdoor crowded public places. Please choose to get vaccinated as soon as possible it is your very best protection against being hospitalized from COVID-19.

So healthcare officials in Idaho are reduced to begging people to get vaccinated.

With over 677,000 covid deaths in the US, I'm pretty much at a loss. Anti-vaxxers don't care until it affects them personally and sometimes they still don't give a shit. It's starting to feel like our society is fucked.

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I assume we're going back to universal DNR soon.

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It's absurd that this has become an issue in our society

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The racists in the most racist state in the west are dying?

Oh no

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