East Idaho News is working with a group of local hospitals to provide a more accurate look at how COVID-19 is impacting our local hospitals and intensive care units.
The goal is to clearly illustrate the limits of ICUs in eastern Idaho, so residents can see that it is very possible to overwhelm the system during a surge of COVID-19 cases.
We have opted to go directly to the hospitals because the data released by health districts or the state is often days old before it is published. Additionally, health districts only report the hospitalization of district residents, rather than the total number of COVID-19 hospitalizations at a medical facility.
Several eastern Idaho hospitals have declined to release information to the media. Those who are not participating are listed below.
Hospital numbers are updated every Tuesday and Thursday.
These numbers are updated every business day.
These numbers are updated every business day.
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