As respiratory viruses surge with the onset of cold weather, Washington pediatric hospital leaders are worried their facilities won’t have enough capacity to care for a rapidly increasing number of sick kids.
Eastern Washington hospitals are preparing for North Idaho to possibly be moved to crisis standards of care after the southern part of the state was on Monday.
The good news about the omicron variant of COVID-19 is that symptoms typically are not as severe as other variants. The bad news is, well, just about everything else.