Daryl has given up his job as a truck driver to help care for the 10-year-old twins his sister left behind, he said. "At the end of the day, we're delaying their care."Īs for the Rise family, Natalie's death has upended the family. Patients who are not immediately able to receive the care they need are taking it "horribly, and rightly so," Getz said. "The vast majority of patients that are in the hospital for Covid right now are unvaccinated, especially those patients that are in our ICU on ventilators," Getz said. And the overwhelming majority of those crowding medical facilities in both Washington and Idaho are not vaccinated, health officials said. Getz is quick to point out that there are pockets of unvaccinated people in east Washington who are contributing to the crisis. You're trying to determine which of those patients does not get life-saving care." "And that's a tragic decision to have to make. "If we get to the point where we saturate our ability to deliver care, then we're put in that incredibly difficult position," Getz said. The hospital is opening a second ICU in the postoperative recovery area, he said, but it's not unthinkable that it too, will have to ration care. "We've struggled over the past two weeks to accept half of those patients." "Historically we're roughly able to accept 90% of transfer requests from our communities to bring patients in," Getz said. "We're declining roughly half of our patients at this point due to capacity, and we've done a lot of things to try to increase capacity," said Daniel Getz, chief medical officer at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Holy Family Hospital in Spokane. I wish people would listen to credible sources," she said. "Social media makes it so easy to spread information quickly that may seem like fact, and it's not. "It's been like a tsunami wave that continues to hit us each day," Hoyer said.Īs for the cause of vaccine hesitancy in Idaho, Hoyer blamed misinformation and disinformation.
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She explained that the hospitals are full of people who are unvaccinated. "Our case investigators, they cannot keep up." "We're in the worst state that we ever have been in the pandemic, this surge has been back-breaking for our health care facilities," said Katherine Hoyer, a spokeswoman for Panhandle Health District that covers five northern counties in Idaho. Hospitals are converting classrooms and conference rooms into hospital care rooms, and there are patients in the hallways. Misinformation and disinformation on social mediaīut there's not much alternative, Idaho providers say. Surgeries are being postponed, emergency departments are full, and there may not be any beds for patients to be admitted to the hospital." "It may look very different than how you have received care in the past. "This is serious your ability to receive care in a hospital will likely be affected," the Idaho Department of Health explained the measure on its website. Idaho last week said that healthcare providers are allowed to ration care, meaning that providers decide who is sickest and needing immediate care, and who must wait for care. Natalie Rise, 46, died August 22, one of the many unvaccinated patients who have triggered a capacity crisis in Idaho hospitals that's flowing into Spokane, Washington, which is about 33 miles away.
There have been numerous scientific studies of the vaccines, testing on thousands of people and millions have received them after authorities granted approval based on those studies.Īccording to the CDC, 54.7% of the US population is fully vaccinated. His sister didn't think there had been studies on the vaccines, Daryl Rise said. "I think it was from misinformation, I think it was falling into negative social media and bloggers, YouTubers." "She was telling me not to get vaccinated," Daryl Rise told CNN. And even as her mother lay in a coma in a hospital bed, fighting for life against Covid, Natalie advised her family against being vaccinated. Rise refused to be vaccinated, even as the virus surged in her city, Coeur d'Alene.
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