Ryan Cole called coronavirus vaccines ‘fake.’ Now he sits on an Idaho health board, as hospitals ration care

On Wednesday, just before Idaho allowed hospitals statewide to use crisis standards of care, Cole was back at the state Capitol. Live-streamed on the lieutenant governor’s Facebook page, he cast fresh doubt on coronavirus vaccines and decried “censorship” of covid-19 treatments while agreeing that the state’s situation is dire. “Hospitals are full,” Cole said. “They are. Patients are dying, the staff is leaving. … Something has to change.”