Idaho health officials confirmed the state’s first case of the fast-spreading COVID-19 omicron sub-variant BA.2 days after returning to crisis health care rationing.
“The BA.2 sub-variant has been identified in 22 U.S. states and at least 40 countries where it is reportedly spreading quickly,” the state Department of Health and Welfare said in a news release.
Idaho is one of the least vaccinated U.S. states and on Monday it returned to rationing hospital care with the implementation of crisis standards of care in southern Idaho.
