treatment and care. people less likely to survive will not get those resources. they will be moved down the line. instead, in an effort to save as many human lives as possible, these hospitals now have permission and guidance to prioritize giving treatment to people who are more likely to live. and that is as bad as it sounds. it means that some people will not be admitted to the hospital, even though they need to be hospitalized. other people who might previously have been given curative treatment, treatment to cure them and save them instead will just be given comfort care to try to make things easier for them. and it s a sort of anti-dine phrase, crisis standards of care. but it is a terrible thing, and it is a thing that we really haven t confronted before as a country. now we ve got it in place, though, in one of montana s major medical centers. they moved to crisis standards of care this week. we ve also got it in every hospital in the state in idaho as of last week, an
hospital started crisis standard of care before the whole state sees tonight. and groups news reporting a triage team. using a specific formula to prioritize patients most likely to recover. has been asked to help with patient care decision, one decision we there were four patients were required a special kind of dialysis which was a replacement therapy. for patients but only two of the four could get it of the two patients who did not receive the therapy, one of them died. the other one survived but remains hospitalized now in a politics care care we setting. another decision at the hospital involve deciding which patient got incubated because they were not enough beds in the icu. another patient died in a world alaska hospital because they needed cardiac catheterization. they were quote waiting for a bid to free up so we could transfer them said the hospital chief steph. and that patient died. providence alaska, the hospital that previously set of crisis tentative care th
previously have been given curative treatment, treatment to cure them and save them instead will just be given comfort care to try to make things easier for them. and it s a sort of anodyne phrase, crisis standards of care. but it is a terrible thing, and it is a thing that we really haven t confronted before as a country. now we ve got it in place, though, in one of montana s major medical centers. they moved to crisis standards of care this week. we ve also got it in every hospital in the state in idaho as of last week and in every hospital in the state in alaska as of tonight. and all of this, of course, is because of the huge influx of very sick covid patients, swamping and effectively breaking the hospital systems in these states so that they can no longer provide care along the ethical and sort of technical guidelines that they ve always followed. and it s not just covid patients who are going to suffer from this rationing in these hospitals. it means everybody who need
america. this is so important. and in 2024 we are going to take back the white house. now, despite all of the lies donald trump tells, this could actually come true. remember 2015 and that escalator ride into all of our lives. a lot of people didn t take him seriously before that. there was a lot of disbelief he would actually follow through on his bluster of running the first time. so, this time around we might want to believe him. we have no reason not to believe he s running again, which means the nation would be facing the nightmare scenario of a wanna be dictator in which people died attempting to regain the highest office of the land. imagine trump thugs wearing trump hats and t-shirts after running loose inside the halls of congress. imagine those thugs carrying that man back into power, cheering him on at the next inaugural parade just three years from now. please don t tell me that can happen again because you know it could. but none of that is a disqualifier for m
cnn.com/full circle or watch it on the cnn app at any time on demand. the news continues with jim acosta and democracy in peril. thank you very much. i m jim acosta, and this is democracy in peril. tonight as we continue our series, we have to consider this very serious possibility. we are going to take back america. this is so important. [ cheers and applause ] and in 2024, we are going to take back the white house. now, despite all of the lies donald trump tells, this could actually come true. remember 2015 and that escalator ride into all of our lives. a lot of people didn t take him seriously before that. there was a lot of disbelief he would actually follow through on his bluster of running the first time. so this time around, we might want to believe him. we have no reason not to believe he s running again, which means the nation would be facing the nightmare scenario of a wannabe dictator who incited a violent insurrection in which people died, attempting to re