"We've essentially shut down an entire floor of our hospital. We've had to double rooms. We've bough

[soothsayer]

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“We’ve essentially shut down an entire floor of our hospital. We’ve had to double rooms. We’ve bought more hospital beds,” said Dr. Robert Scoggins, a pulmonologist at the Kootenai Health hospital in Coeur d’Alene “Our hospital is not built for a pandemic”

Some hospitals in crisis as US nears high for COVID-19 cases
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[CabalPowered]

1. CDA is an extreme right wing

Hotbed. There are a handful of dedicated and rugged Dems but I wouldn't be surprised if mask usage is practically non-existent.

[dalton99a]

5. +1. It is white supremacist country

Aryan Nations was born in Kootenai County

[jmowreader]

8. Well...you won't be surprised

After I got back to Kootenai County, I had to make two stops.

First was to the Volkswagen dealer because I had a warning light on the dashboard I'd never seen before. (It was because of snow on the front VW emblem, which doubles as the cover for the radar antenna on a car with Adaptive Cruise Control. VW, of course, doesn't tell you this in the manual...)

Then was to the supermarket to buy some food for the weekend.

Very, very few people were wearing masks. The staff all were, but most of the customers were reveling in their new-found freedumb and walking around maskless.

[Reader Rabbit]

2. They are talking about sending their overflow to Seattle and Portland hospitals.

I know it’s petty, but I think those patients should be rejected. Or, at the very least, the State of Idaho should be made liable for all medical costs incurred by these patients.

[Demsrule86]

3. No, you don't sacrifice people for political spite...good heavens what are you thinking?

And consider in the reddest of the states, there are always Democrats/liberals.

[ismnotwasm]

4. Aw shit, we don't want them

I work at a high surgical flow hospital in Seattle and we try to keep Covid numbers down. We are a four hospital system. My particular nurse specialty is solid organ transplant and during the first wave we tried not to have any at all. After a while we had to of course.

What a mess. We never stopped life saving transplants, but the hospital lost an incredible amount of money during the shutdown. We are at capacity right now. I don’t know who can take them.

[roamer65]

7. I would say no.

Why overload your system for them, WA and OR?

ID needs to set up field hospitals, not export their problem.

Block them at the state borders.

[MissB]

11. Because we can handle them.

At least Oregon can. We aren’t using that much capacity at this point. Our numbers are climbing but not dramatically.

[roamer65]

12. Your numbers will go up if you take them.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. This was happening on the east coast - notably NYC back in the spring

and that was for big hospitals... to the point where they had patients in ER cubicles and then started moving regular patients out to overflow facilities to make room.

[jmowreader]

9. There are two hospitals in Kootenai County

One is Kootenai Health, which is overflowing right now.

The other is the surgeon-owned Northwest Specialty Hospital, which can't deal with COVID-19 cases at all - it is strictly a surgical hospital.

We are fucked now, and with the new freedumb the four non-medically-trained board dumbasses at Panhandle Health District inflicted on the county we're even more fucked.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. Send in the USNS-Comfort

Oh, wait.....

Seriously, perhaps the military or FEMA can help with portable emergency hospitals.

Kootenai County infection curve as of 10/23/20:



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That upturn in the curve slope does not look good. Several other Idaho counties have a similar (or worse) pattern.

Best of luck to the people of this area. We're all in this together.

KY........

[malaise]

13. Killa Con doesn't care

There's an entire floor dedicated to him at WR