Alaska, overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, adopts crisis standards for hospitals

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska, which led most U.S. states in coronavirus vaccinations months ago, took the drastic step on Wednesday of imposing crisis-care standards for its entire hospital system, declaring that a crushing surge in COVID-19 patients has forced rationing of strained medical resources.

Governor Mike Dunleavy and health officials announced the move as the tally of newly confirmed cases statewide reached another single-day record of 1,224 patients amid a wave of infections driven by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant among the unvaccinated.

The Delta variant is “crippling our healthcare system. It’s impacting everything from heart attacks to strokes to our children if they get in a bike accident,” Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer, said at a news conference with Dunleavy.

Idaho, another one of several largely rural states where COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed healthcare systems in recent weeks, activated its own crisis-care standards statewide last Thursday, citing a spike in hospitalizations that "has exhausted existing resources."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alaska-overwhelmed-by-covid-19-patients-adopts-crisis-standards-for-hospitals/ar-AAOILDU

[rogue emissary]

1. Palin finally gets her "Death Panels"

[WA-03 Democrat]

2. So 3 states are in Crisis Care Mode

1) Idaho
2) Montana
3) Alaska

No signs any of these states will leave this mode soon.

[RockRaven]

3. Death Panels, brought to you by GQP pols' policy choices and GQP voters' behaviors

And they will blame everyone but themselves.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Some low density states have high density Covid 19

[Lovie777]

5. I keep seeing the governor in a commercial . ..

saying come vacation in Alaska because they are vaccinated.