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they have ever seen, just look at the chart here. joining us now is dr. brian hoyt, the emergency medical director at mckenzie medical center in springfield, oregon. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. okay. so we re seeing this move to a crisis standard of care in neighboring idaho. what are you seeing? what are you doing where you are? well, it s been a challenging summer already because of our nurse staffing shortages and then just about three weeks ago we had a huge spike in the delta variant come through our community. and we were averaging about five covid positive patients in our hospital of 92 medical beds a day. and in about 3 to 4 days we went up to 51 covid positive patients in our hospital admitted with our icu completely full, 15 beds all on ventilators and we ran out of ventilators. we had to borrow four from a neighboring hospital. and in two days those were being used and it s just been a real
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Tuesday, the U.S. marked 400,000 deaths from the coronavirus exactly one year to the day since the first case was diagnosed in our country. More than 1,600 of those deaths have happened in Idaho. The good news: almost 11,000 Idahoans have received their COVID-19 vaccination.
Idaho Matters posed your questions to two physicians working to combat the pandemic:
Dr. Andrew Southard, Emergency Medical Director at Saint Alphonsus
Dr. Rob Cavagnol, St. Luke’s Executive Medical Director
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the 52 calls were for heroin overdoses, and there were calls for alcohol and prescription medications and other calls. this doubles the calls from the same area last week, and no deaths reported but one person died in a car crash where the driver was using heroin. joining us now from louisville, the emergency medical director. thank you so much for being with us. good morning. please help us understand, if you could, what you are seeing there in louisville? we are just seeing tremendously increased numbers of heroin and other opioid overdoses. it has been a real crisis for the last few months. we had a big spike several months ago where just in one
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