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Idaho health leaders OK crisis health care rationing rule

by REBECCA BOONE Associated Press
| December 12, 2020 3:45 PM

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's top public health leaders on Friday cleared the way for state officials to impose crisis standards of care if the number of COVID-19 patients increases so much that the state's already strained hospitals wind up completely overwhelmed.

Idaho Board of Health and Welfare members approved the temporary rule giving Department of Health and Welfare Director David Jeppesen the authority to enact the standards whenever needed...

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