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Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge

by Rebecca Boone
| September 9, 2021 12:03 AM

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.

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