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COVID-19 cases are declining nationwide — but Alaska's health care system is at a breaking point

COVID-19 cases are declining nationwide — but Alaska's health care system is at a breaking point
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In Alaska's COVID crisis, doctors must decide who lives and who dies

Much of the nation’s hospital system has been stressed, but overloaded facilities in the lower 48 states have had more flexibility to transfer patients to neighboring cities or other states. ....

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Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

Alaska’s doctors are forced to ration care. ....

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In Alaska's Covid Crisis, Doctors Must Decide Who Lives and Who Dies

Amid the nation’s worst Covid-19 outbreak, patients are trapped in remote communities and doctors are prioritizing treatment based on who is most likely to survive. ....

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In Alaska's COVID Crisis, Doctors Must Decide Who Lives and Who Dies, World News

There was one bed coming available in the intensive care unit in Alaska’s largest hospital.

It was the middle of the night, and the hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, had been hit with a deluge of coronavirus patients. Doctors now had a choice to make: Several more patients at the hospital, most of them with COVID-19, were in line to take that last ICU spot. But there was also someone from one of the state’s isolated rural communities who needed to be flown in for emergency surgery.

Who should get the final bed? ....

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