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Alaska. hospitals in kentucky, hospitals in montana and several other states have reported that they are teetering on the brink of the same designation, but this announcement in alaska tonight is new, and we have never as a country had multiple states rationing care like this simultaneously. we've just never had it. and forgive me for just putting this in personal terms for a second, but people say getting vaccinated or not is a personal decision, as if it only affects you. i hear that a lot, explicitly, particularly on conservative media and from conservative politicians. it's a personal deci...

Overrun, and the standards is that allowed that death to happen are now in place statewide in every hospital in alaska and in every hospital in idaho, and they're going into effect in other individual hospitals in other states now too. that is because people are not getting vaccinated. your decision whether or not to get vaccinated can be a life or death determining factor for somebody else who did get vaccinated, but gets in a car wreck or needs dialysis, or needs a heart catheterization procedure, something that they won't be able to get because of all the unvaccinated people filling up the ...

It's been a week since the state of idaho activated what's called crisis standards of care statewide. it allows any hospital in the state to ration care basically amid the huge influx of covid patients in idaho. as i mentioned at the top of the show, tonight we have just learned that another state is activating crisis standards of care statewide. this time it is alaska. facilities across that state have been reporting that they've been becoming increasingly overwhelmed for some time now. alaska's new case rate is now the highest in the country per capita. and it's not just idaho and alaska. mo...

Hospital in the state in idaho as of last week, and in every hospital in the state in alaska as of tonight. and all of this of course is because of the huge influx of very sick covid patients, swamping and effectively breaking the hospital systems in these states so that they can no longer provide care along the ethical and sort of technical guidelines that they've always followed. and it's not just covid patients who are going to suffer from this rationing in these hospitals. it means everybody who needs to go to the hospital for any reason has reason to worry. the idaho statesman newspaper r...

Transport team for air response. they're highly specialized. they create a portable intensive care unit for use on airplanes so they can deliver icu level care at 30,000 feet while transporting critically ill patients from point a to point b. these critical transport teams are an amazing thing that the u.s. military does. what they are meant for is to transfer critically wounded soldiers from places like bagram in afghanistan to germany to u.s. military hospitals elsewhere and then of course on to walter reed at home in the united states. covid has changed the focus and now those skills and eq...