Idaho has hit a grim Covid-19 trifecta this week, reaching record numbers of emergency room visits, hospitalisations and ICU patients.

Medical experts say the deeply conservative state will likely see 30,000 new coronavirus infections a week by mid-September.

With a critical shortage of hospital beds and staff and one of the nation’s lowest vaccination rates, Idaho health providers are growing desperate and preparing to follow crisis standards of care, which call for giving scarce resources to patients most likely to survive.

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