Enlarge / A coronavirus preparedness tent setup outdoors a hospital emergency room entrance at Gritman Medical Middle within the northern Idaho metropolis of Moscow in March 2020. (credit score: Getty | Training Photographs)
Well being officers in Idaho are reporting dire circumstances as hospitals across the state proceed to crumble beneath the delta-fueled surge of COVID-19 circumstances.
“We proceed to set file highs,” Dave Jeppesen, director of the Idaho Division of Well being and Welfare, stated in a press briefing Tuesday. With the newest knowledge by way of September 18, the state noticed a brand new file excessive of 686 hospitalized COVID-19 sufferers, a file excessive of 180 COVID-19 sufferers in intensive care models, and a file excessive of 112 COVID-19 sufferers on ventilators. The variety of ventilated COVID-19 sufferers is sort of double what was seen within the final surge of COVID-19 circumstances in December.
“These numbers proceed to extend, and we anticipate them to proceed to extend,” Jeppesen added.
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