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Officials: Health care rationing could spread across Idaho

by Rebecca Boone
| September 8, 2021 9:06 AM

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's move to “crisis standards of care” is allowing some hospitals to ration health care as they struggle with an onslaught of coronavirus patients, and officials are warning the procedures could spread statewide. But the main hospital affected by the designation was already operating under extreme conditions, officials said.

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