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The impacts of Wyomings COVID-19 surge are being exacerbated by spikes in neighboring states and the concurrent strain on the regions healthcare resources. Demand for Wyomings scarce hospital capacity is expected to build, at least in the short term: County health officers have counseled that the state could soon see 3,000 new cases a day with 2% of those patients requiring hospitalization, Gov. Mark Gordon said at a press conference Friday. Our hospitals are overwhelmed today, the governor said.
Hospital pressure in neighboring states which often treat Wyomings most severely ill makes managing demands on Wyomings hospitals all the more urgent, health officials have said since the pandemics beginning.
Gordon ticked off warning signs from neighboring states: When you see Utah close its hospital, thats a problem for Wyoming, he said. When you see Eastern Idaho Regional Medical close their hospital, thats a problem. When you see Billings clinic close their hospital, thats a problem. When South Dakota has to send their patients to Wyoming because theyre too full, thats a problem, and when we have capacity issues down in Colorado thats a problem.
Current Utah Lieutenant Governor and now Gov.-Elect Spencer Cox told NPR in an interview aired Nov. 10 that hospitals in that state are no longer taking patients from southern Idaho and Wyoming. Rep. Roy Edwards of Gillette, the states first known official to die of COVID-19, wanted to be treated in South Dakota, according to his son Mitch, but was life flighted instead farther from home to Wyoming Medical Center in Casper. The hospital in Rapid City was prioritizing in-state patients, the family was told.
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https://www.wyofile.com/wyoming-losing-care-options-as-covid-floods-regions-hospitals/
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(13,070 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)An enforceable one.
orwell
(7,765 posts)...Vote RepubliCon!
How about...Visit beautiful Wyoming...come in your car...leave in a box.
Idaho...for the vacation of your life!
Utah...We're building the wall!
Keep voting RepubliCon all you Red States. What could ever go wrong with TrumpWorship and fact-free science denial...
At least you have FreeDumb. At least you "owned the libs"...
hlthe2b
(102,105 posts)barbtries
(28,756 posts)who did not have to die. #TrumpGenocide
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Why should a hospital closure or at capacity in Utah or eastern Idaho or Montana have any effect at all on Wyoming's rapidly-filling hospitals? Isn't that everyone else's problem in those rugged individualist states? And South Dakota should be honored to admit Rep. Edwards of Wyoming, maybe even set aside a wing of a hospital for such a distinguished patient. That public servant has earned pride of place, hasn't he?
Hmmmm. Nope, those stupid arguments still sound stupid, even when you put it in the context of an unfolding rolling emergency like this.
Yavin4
(35,415 posts)Gee. Guess that was wrong, huh.