Hospitals in Washington State, already strained, are taking on Covid patients from Idaho

[andhra_jp]

In Idaho, where unchecked virus transmission has pushed hospitals beyond their breaking point,  the state is sending some Covid-19 patients to neighboring Washington State.

But Washington hospitals are struggling with their own high caseloads, and some leaders in the state see Idaho’s outsourcing of Covid patients as a troubling example of how the failure to aggressively confront the virus in one state can deepen a crisis in another.

Idaho now has more than 600 patients hospitalized with Covid-19, about 20 percent higher than a previous peak in December. Only 40 percent of the state’s residents are fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in the nation, compared with 61 percent in Washington State, one of the highest.

The strain on health care facilities is particularly evident in northern Idaho, where the vaccination rate is even lower.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/13/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/hospitals-in-washington-state-already-strained-are-taking-on-covid-patients-from-idaho

[jefferson1]

Two days down the road , Washington state is totally ** with corona patients ani news vasthadi Fox News lo 

[mirchi_bajji]

anni states effect avthayi man. just because the spread started from south does not mean that anti vaxxers caused the issue. it is slowly spreading to all states.

[Pitta]