New York City will once again welcome thousands of people to Times Square for the famed New Year’s Eve ball drop tradition, so long as they show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, officials said Tuesday.
Continue Reading Pfizer said Tuesday it signed a licensing agreement to allow broader global access to its experimental COVID-19 pill.
Continue Reading In the search for workers in this tight labor market, companies have courted new hires with the promise of higher wages, sign-on bonuses, ample vacation time, and childcare.
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Some of Spain’s regional governments are asking courts to allow them to introduce virus passports that can help control the rising spread of COVID-19.
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai and Travis Caldwell, CNN Eight residents of a nursing home in northwestern Connecticut have died since late September following a Covid-19 outbreak, the nursing home said in a statement. A total of 89 residents and staff — many of whom were fully vaccinated — have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last
Continue Reading Little kids can often tell how people are feeling, even if that person is wearing a face mask, a new study published Monday found.
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Idaho officials reported 951 new COVID-19 cases and 17 new deaths over the weekend.
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added three popular European nations and a small, idyllic island destination to its list of “very high” risk travel destinations on Monday as a new Covid-19 surge continues to sweep much of Europe. The four destinations moved to Level 4,
Continue Reading The forecast for the coming winter isn’t looking hopeful: COVID-19 likely is not going away for the holidays.
Continue Reading As it is, holiday gatherings with loved ones can be a careful dance of dodging landmines on the way to wonderful memories — and this year, we are adding potentially explosive conversations around vaccination status.
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Since vaccines were first authorized for use nearly a year ago, swarms of anti-vaxxers have pushed a variety of unfounded claims suggesting the vaccine is unsafe and urging people not to receive one.
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A significant number of patients are reporting symptoms of depression that worsened throughout the pandemic, placing them at higher risk for heart disease, a new study has found.
Continue Reading By Travis Caldwell and Joe Sutton, CNN With hospitals throughout Colorado facing increases in Covid-19 hospitalizations, state officials announced that attendees of large public indoor events in certain jurisdictions must be vaccinated in order to help curb the virus’ spread. Gatherings of more than 500 people in parts of metro Denver will require attendees to
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 942 new COVID-19 cases and 32 new deaths Friday.
Continue Reading The coronavirus numbers don’t look so good this week. New COVID-19 diagnoses are up in about half of US states over the past week. Hospitalizations are up in 11 states, and deaths have risen in 17 states.
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Bonneville School District 93 will stay in the Moderate Risk phase next week, but the district’s numbers are starting to trend up.
Continue Reading AstraZeneca has booked its first profit from sales of its COVID-19 vaccine.
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A missionary held back tears after she received her COVID vaccine in late October. She had traveled about 7,500 miles to get to this fateful moment.
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Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has defied federal guidance on COVID-19 booster shots by issuing an order allowing all residents 18 years old and older to get them.
Continue Reading A newborn baby will spend his first night at home Wednesday after contracting COVID-19 over the summer.
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The contagious delta variant is driving up COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Mountain West and fueling disruptive outbreaks in the North. It’s a worrisome sign of what could be ahead this winter in the U.S. Meanwhile, trends are improving in Florida, Texas and other Southern states that bore the
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A new study suggests that people with specific sleep disorders may be at risk of more severe outcomes if they contract COVID-19, with a 31 per cent higher rate of hospitalization and mortality.
Continue Reading More than 2 million of Ellume’s at-home COVID-19 tests have been recalled by the company due to “higher-than-acceptable” false positives.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 724 new COVID-19 cases and 22 new deaths Wednesday.
Continue Reading As children ages 5 to 11 years old began receiving the COVID-19 vaccine last week, families across the country have been breathing a great sigh of relief. Their younger kids will soon be much better protected against the coronavirus.
Continue Reading Approximately 900,000 children ages 5 through 11 are expected to have received a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine by the end of Wednesday, a White House official said. An announcement is expected to come later today.
Continue Reading By Arlette Saenz, Kate Sullivan and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new deal it brokered with Johnson & Johnson and the global vaccination program called Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, or COVAX, to provide J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine to people in conflict zones and other humanitarian settings where government vaccine campaigns cannot
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) and Southwest District Health (SWDH) have confirmed the first death of an Idaho child due to COVID-19.
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The president of the state’s top business lobby group in a letter to Idaho lawmakers says the group will oppose any attempts by the Legislature to impose restrictions on businesses requiring COVID-19 vaccines.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 738 new COVID-19 cases and 3 new deaths Tuesday.
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Today is Call to Earth Day, a time to raise awareness of environmental issues and engage with conservation education. How can you participate? Just do something positive for the environment today! Pick up trash, recycle, reduce your consumption or learn about something new. Here’s what you need to know to Get
Continue Reading The information landscape about COVID-19 is bewildering, with factual and fictional claims competing for attention. And most American adults have heard at least a couple of the fictions, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Continue Reading The tragedy at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival left eight people dead and dozens injured, as the crowd surged during the rapper’s set.
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added two northwestern European countries to its list of “very high” risk travel destinations this week amid a surge in cases in Europe that a WHO official has said is “of grave concern.”
Continue Reading The United States has reopened its borders to vaccinated international travelers, ending a 20-month travel ban at the same moment Europe is battling a surge of COVID-19 cases that has pushed the continent back into the epicenter of the pandemic.
Continue Reading The COVID-19 pandemic caused a 16% rise in expected deaths among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, hitting overall life expectancy in 24 out of 30 members, the organization said Tuesday.
Continue Reading When Perrysburg School Superintendent Thomas Hosler sent a survey to parents in his Toledo-area district to see how many wanted to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19, he got more than 20,000 “no” responses. His district only has 5,700 students in it.
Continue Reading Double-masking, staying at home nearly 24/7 and rarely seeing people beyond his wife are still the way of life for kidney transplant recipient Andrew Linder, even after many in the United States are living like the pandemic has ended.
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The Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) will hold a media briefing about COVID-19 in Idaho at 2:30 p.m. (MDT) Tuesday.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,192 new COVID-19 cases and 34 new deaths over the weekend.
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Beginning Monday, no-cost, rapid PCR testing for COVID-19 will be available in Teton County, Wyo.
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A pill to treat COVID — Pfizer and Merck both generated excitement with news they have pills that could help keep people out of the hospital if they catch coronavirus.
Continue Reading It was a big day for Sesame Street’s 5-year-old Rosita, who recently got her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Continue Reading COVID-19 is here to stay.
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More than 250 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported globally, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Continue Reading Pfizer is expected to seek US Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for a coronavirus vaccine booster shot for people 18 and older, a Biden administration official said Monday.
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AARP Idaho will continue its series of statewide telephone town halls with Idaho Governor Brad Little and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Dave Jeppesen at 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 8.
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN The United States flung its doors open to vaccinated international travelers on Monday, welcoming many visitors who’ve been shut out of the country for nearly 20 months. For Maria Giribet Caldentey, it marked a precious opportunity to see her twin grandchildren in California. She’s already had to postpone this trip once
Continue Reading By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Fewer than 100 intensive care unit beds are available across Colorado, the state’s Covid-19 incident commander said during a Friday news conference. “As of today, looking at the data that is reported by the hospitals, we are the lowest number of beds we’ve had available, and we do have less than
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This week, the Centers for Disease Control and federal regulators approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 years old.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 803 new COVID-19 cases and 15 new deaths Friday.
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Bonneville School District 93 will stay in the Moderate Risk phase next week.
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Governor Mark Gordon is announcing the next steps his administration is taking to stop President Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates.
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Companies are running the numbers this week as they comb through recently released guidance on how to implement President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate. According to the guidance released Thursday from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), employers with at least 100 employees must offer workers up to four hours
Continue Reading Even if they get a breakthrough infection, vaccinated people don’t get as sick with COVID-19, two different teams of researchers reported Thursday.
Continue Reading Drugmaker Pfizer said Friday its experimental pill designed to fight coronavirus reduced the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk patients taking part in a trial of the drug.
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Shares of drug giant Pfizer surged nearly 11% Friday after the company announced positive test results for an experimental pill it has developed to fight Covid-19. Pfizer said the pill reduced the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk patients who were part of a trial taking the
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Millions of children in America became eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine this week. And some officials are sweetening the deal by including them in various incentive programs. In New York City, children can claim $100 if they get their first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine at city-operated vaccine site. Alternatively, they
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 622 new COVID-19 cases and 29 new deaths Thursday.
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Idaho and Wyoming will join a multistate lawsuit against the Biden administration over an emergency rule mandating that employers with more than 100 workers require COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly testing by Jan. 4.
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U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo joined U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and 38 of their Senate Republican colleagues to formally disapprove and nullify President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on private employees under the Congressional Review Act: the official process for Congress to overturn an executive branch rule.
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Idaho State University is presenting their students with a system called cash for vax. It is a chance for them to get rewarded for being vaccinated.
Continue Reading Nine-year-old Parson Harrington had to isolate more than most during this pandemic — and the lung transplant recipient hopes the COVID-19 vaccine she received in Houston on Wednesday is her ticket to relief and freedom.
Continue Reading Now that health officials in the US have issued emergency use authorization for a vaccine for younger children, the next step in vaccinating children is families finding the nearest dose.
Continue Reading Moderna fell short of profit and sales expectations for the third quarter, and the COVID vaccine maker warned that its full year shipments of the vaccine will not meet its forecasts.
Continue Reading By Jason Hoffman, CNN The Biden administration announced Thursday that its vaccine rules applying to private businesses with 100 or more employees, certain health care workers and federal contractors will take effect January 4. The rules stipulate that employees that fall into those groups will need to have received the necessary shots to be fully
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Stacker compiled a list of 25 virology terms to help individuals and communities gain a better understanding of the science of outbreaks and viruses, and to help them come to terms with the pandemic caused by COVID-19.
Continue Reading Southeastern Idaho Public Health (SIPH) announced they will be ready to begin vaccinating this age group starting next week.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,244 new COVID-19 cases and 23 new deaths Wednesday.
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In the hours after the COVID-19 vaccine was formally approved for use in younger children, social media pages lit up with eager parents seeking appointments for their grade-schoolers.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 Pediatric Vaccine for children ages 5-11.
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky officially gave the green light on that guidance Tuesday.
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When 8-year-old Nate Wittenborn saw a photo of Pfizer’s pediatric COVID-19 vaccine, he jumped up and down.
Continue Reading Families are getting an early gift this holiday season: the chance to protect their children between the ages of 5 and 11 against COVID-19 through vaccination.
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Teton County Health Department will host COVID-19 vaccine clinics specially for children 5–11 years old due to the different vaccine storage and preparation requirements.
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Idaho colleges and universities will abide by President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates even as the state fights the rules by joining a federal lawsuit.
Continue Reading US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday evening she was endorsing a recommendation to vaccinate children ages 5-11 against COVID-19, clearing the way for immediate vaccination of the youngest age group yet in the United States.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 924 new COVID-19 cases and 6 new deaths Tuesday.
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Idaho Division of Public Health Administrator Elke Shaw-Tulloch says the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations and newly confirmed coronavirus cases has been dropping in Idaho, but the numbers are still high enough to leave hospitals overtaxed.
Continue Reading The South Pacific island nation of Tonga went into lockdown on Tuesday, following the discovery of the country’s first COVID case since the start of the pandemic.
Continue Reading Millions of child-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are being shipped from the company’s facilities to distribution centers across the country — ready to go out to pharmacies and pediatricians’ offices, the Biden administration said Monday.
Continue Reading Pfizer reported that earnings and sales more than doubled in the past quarter, and it raised its outlook for results the full year, thanks greatly to its COVID-19 vaccine.
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers US health officials have given the final OK to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 5. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the go-ahead Tuesday night. The announcement came only hours after a CDC advisory panel unanimously decided Pfizer’s
Continue Reading The go-ahead for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids 5 to 11 could happen this week.
Continue Reading IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) – Idaho officials reported 1,445 new COVID-19 cases and 37 new deaths over the weekend. That brings the total confirmed and probable cases reported since March 2020 to 292,317. There are a total of 232,484 confirmed cases and 59,833 probable cases in all 44 of the 44 counties in Idaho, according
Continue Reading If you’re vaccinated against COVID-19 and wondering if you’re eligible for a booster shot, the answer is probably yes.
Continue Reading Many pediatricians have already placed their orders for child-sized doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine and are anxiously awaiting their shipments of shots.
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The number of people who have died from COVID-19 around the world has surpassed five million, according to data held by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center.
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New research into the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot suggests getting a third dose significantly reduces the risk of disease-related hospitalization and death.
Continue Reading It’s among parents’ top worries around kids getting vaccinated against COVID-19: Could the vaccine somehow impair their child’s future fertility?
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden tested negative for Covid-19 on Sunday, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday morning. The President took the test independently of press secretary Jen Psaki’s positive result, which she disclosed in a statement Sunday afternoon. The test was required for entry into the United Kingdom, where
Continue Reading Singer Jon Bon Jovi tested positive for COVID-19 before a Saturday performance, prompting the cancellation of a Florida concert.
Continue Reading By Philip Wang and Helen Regan, CNN The South Pacific island nation of Tonga reported its first case of Covid-19 on Friday, spurring thousands of people to get vaccinated amid warnings of a national lockdown. Tonga was one of only a few countries that had not reported a single Covid case since the start of
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,076 new COVID-19 cases and 25 new deaths Friday.
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Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill has joined a ten-state coalition led by Missouri in filing a lawsuit against the Biden Administration for imposing a vaccine mandate on federal contractors and federally contracted employees.
Continue Reading Vaccination protects people against coronavirus infection much better than previous infection does, a team of researchers led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.
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Leavitt’s Women’s Health Care is working on a new way to take a COVID-19 test, from the comfort of your home. They are working on a new study to get this covid-19 test fully approved by the FDA.
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Bonneville School District 93 will stay in the Moderate Risk phase next week.
Continue Reading Rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have sunk significantly in the US since a wave driven by the highly contagious Delta variant peaked in September.
Continue Reading By Allison Hope, CNN At dinnertime, you nab the best-looking pork chop for yourself from the family-style platter. When it’s time to watch TV, you snatch the remote control before anyone else can get to it. Or maybe you take the last bit of hand sanitizer from the store shelf with little regard for whether
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