I posted this in a different thread.
Idaho hospital forced to turn away hundreds of transfer patients amid Covid surge
"Idaho hospitals are so overwhelmed with the
surge in coronavirus cases that doctors and nurses have to contact dozens of regional hospitals across the West in hopes of finding places to
transfer individual critical patients.
The situation has grown so bad that the Idaho Department of Health and Wellness
announced Thursday that the entire state is in a hospital resource crisis, permitting medical facilities to ration health care and triage patients.
Kootenai Health, a hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has already converted a conference room into an overflow Covid unit, started
paying traveling nurses $250 an hour and brought in a military medical unit.
"It's just nonstop trying to find placement for these patients and the care that they need," said Brian Whitlock, the president and CEO of the Idaho Hospital Association, who noted that hospitals across the state are struggling with the same issue. "It really is a minute-by-minute assessment of where beds are open, and hospitals saying we don't know where we're going to put the next one."
Idaho hospital forced to turn away hundreds of transfer patients amid Covid surge (yahoo.com)
I remember this talk about "Death Panels" a few years ago. It seems that we're on the cusp of those becoming a reality. We "freedumbed" our way into it.