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In this Feb. 10, 2021, file photo, Cindy Pollock does maintenance on the construction flags in her front yard in Boise, Idaho. Pollock began planting the tiny flags across her yard, one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans then killed by COVID-19, the toll was mostly a number. Idaho hospital facilities and public health agencies are scrambling to add capacity however they can as the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise statewide. On Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, some Idaho hospitals only narrowly avoided enacting "crisis standards of care," where scarce healthcare resources are allotted to the patients most likely to benefit, thanks in part to statewide coordination. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger, File)

In this Feb. 10, 2021, file photo, Cindy Pollock does maintenance on the construction flags in her front yard in Boise, Idaho. Pollock began planting the tiny flags across her yard, one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans then killed by COVID-19, the toll was mostly a number. Idaho hospital facilities and public health agencies are scrambling to add capacity however they can as the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise statewide. On Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, some …

August 27, 2021

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COVID-19 forces Idaho hospitals past capacity, toward crisis
August 27, 2021 11:40 a.m.

COVID-19 forces Idaho hospitals past capacity, toward crisis

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