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In Las Vegas, county commissioners passed a resolution calling misinformation a "public health crisis," while Idaho's public health department is cracking down on misinformation on Facebook.

When hospital workers are overwhelmed by a public health crisis and unable to provide standard care, crisis standards of care dictate who gets what kind of treatment.

“Almost all of them tell me, ‘I had no idea it was like this. If I had only known I would have gotten vaccinated. If I had only known I would have taken this so much more seriously,’” says an ICU nurse in North Idaho. “For them it’s already happened. They can’t go back and change their decision.”

Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County has opened a second COVID unit in its same day surgery department. This comes about a week after the hospital announced it was canceling elective surgeries due to increase of COVID-10 patients and staff shortages.

On August 31, Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County announced they are canceling all elective surgeries. This comes right after the Rock Springs hospital had a completely full ICU over the weekend. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska spoke with the director of emergency services and incident commander Kim White to understand why elective surgeries had to be canceled.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are continually increasing and even though the numbers aren't as high as the winter surge, some are saying this is worse.

The Campbell County Board of Commissioners has approved an agreement that allows the local hospital to affiliate with a Colorado-based hospital system.

The Campbell County Health Board of Trustees has been working on a potential deal to affiliate the local hospital system with UC Health, a Colorado-based hospital system. The move has caused uproar in the community, with many asking questions about what this could mean for local residents. Wyoming Public Radio's Catherine Wheeler spoke with Board Chair Adrian Gerrits and board member Tom Murphy about the Campbell County Board of Commissioners' recent decision to not move ahead with the deal. Gerrits said it's a move trustees have been discussing for years. He begins by explaining how and why they are considering the affiliation.

The Mountain West is facing a hospitalization crisis, and even states that cracked down early are feeling the effects of those that didn't. In...

Hospitals continue to fill up across the Mountain West, and that means some patients may have nowhere to go.