Vaccine boosts morale, but strains persist in hospitals

Hospital representatives delivered a sigh of relief to eastern Idaho health officials on Thursday, saying that the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines to frontline health care workers this week has boosted staff morale.
But that relief is being tempered by the sustained staffing strains that hospitals are experiencing as virus patients fill up their ICUs.
“Over half of our ICU census is COVID positive,” David Hoffenberg of Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center told the regional board. “Beyond that, we are very excited to report that yesterday and the night before … we administered our first vaccinations.”
Twenty-five of the hospital’s nearly 30 staffed ICU beds were full, he said, with 13 of the patients being COVID-19 positive and 16 being on ventilators. The hospital was treating 40 of the 71 COVID-19 patients on Thursday in hospitals across the eight-county health district. But excitement grows among staff as vaccine rollout picks up pace.

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