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Idaho could have 9-plus patients for every bed in outbreak

by Associated Press
| March 21, 2020 12:03 AM

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has fewer than 2,300 general care hospital beds statewide, with fewer than half of them estimated to be empty and available to take new patients on any given day, according to an Associated Press analysis of Centers of Medicare and Medicaid cost reports data.

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