Overtaxed Idaho health facilities on brink of rationing care
By KEITH RIDLERDecember 5, 2020 GMT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) 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. Some days, she says, half of them test positive for COVID-19.
Angry and upset man films police carrying out stupid stop and search in Bristol I looked at them, they looked at me, and I knew what was going to happen
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A Bristol man has spoken of his anger and frustration after police stopped and searched his brother in Barton Hill.
Future of desperately needed new Bristol secondary school in jeopardy
“There is a real risk that this school may never open at all
16:36, 18 DEC 2020
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The future of a long-awaited new secondary school in east Bristol is in jeopardy after the government called in the planning consent.
The Bristol neighbourhoods that have helped the city get into Tier 2
Some areas have seen very significant drops in cases
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Bristol will be moving to Tier 2 this weekend as coronavirus cases in the area have significantly improved in recent weeks.
How Bristol achieved a sharp fall in coronavirus cases
Targeted work among BAME communities was key to the city s success
09:57, 16 DEC 2020
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Some of the practical steps behind a sharp fall in Bristol’s coronavirus cases have been revealed as the city waits to find out if it will escape Tier 3.