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Overtaxed Idaho health facilities on brink of rationing care
BOISE, Idaho – Soldiers triaging patients in parking lots in a capital city is normally the stuff of science fiction.Yet that’s the reality in Boise, where troops direct people outside an urgent-care clinic revamped into a facility for coronavirus patients as infections and deaths surge in Idaho and nationwide.Inside Primary Health Medical Group's clinic, physician assistant Nicole Thomas works extra 12-hour shifts to help out. She dons goggles, an N95 mask, a surgical mask over that, gloves and a body covering to examine 36 patients a day with symptoms.