Nearly one in 10 Americans — more than 32 million people — are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the Centers…
Continue Reading Alaska, one of the states leading the US in vaccinations, has made the COVID-19 vaccine available to any resident ages 16 and up. It’s the…
Continue Reading Clorox got a huge boost from worried consumers continually wiping down surfaces at home during the height of the pandemic. But now that more people…
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued long-awaited guidance on what fully vaccinated people can safely do, and with it, an…
Continue Reading Texans will no longer be under a statewide mandate to wear masks in public as of Wednesday, but they shouldn’t be too quick to throw out their…
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Idaho officials reported 481 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths on…
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Continue Reading Some celebrated when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out with its long-awaited guidelines for the fully vaccinated Monday.…
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Idaho is continuing to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine across the state to first responders, K-12 teachers and staff, daycare
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Local health officials reported 231 new COVID-19 cases in the area…
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The Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) will hold a briefing about the COVID-19 vaccine in Idaho at 2:30 p.m.…
Continue Reading A safer future is just a few months away, but it’s crucial that Americans keep practicing COVID-19 safety precautions and heeding health…
Continue Reading Governor Brad Little issued a statement Tuesday reflecting on one year of Idaho’s pandemic fight.…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 378 new COVID-19 cases and 11 new deaths on…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 224 new COVID-19 cases and five new deaths in the area…
Continue Reading Pets are often celebrated for matching their owner’s mannerisms. Walking at the same pace? A sign of good training. Cuddling and watching TV…
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A COVID-19 test collected from a Teton County resident in January 2021 has been genotyped and identified as the COVID-19 variant B.1.351, which was…
Continue Reading New guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can safely visit with other…
Continue Reading The US is in the “eye of the hurricane” right now, according to epidemiologist Michael Osterholm. After months of devastation, it…
Continue Reading Health experts have long argued that face masks are critical to slowing the spread of the coronavirus and ending the pandemic. But some elected…
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Idaho State Police say that while a permit was given for the protest, there were to be no open…
Continue Reading When Brittany Hall from upstate New York received her first COVID-19 vaccine after barely leaving home since last March, she pulled out her phone and…
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A Cumberland County healthcare worker says she is being fired after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. 26-year-old Desiree Pelletier of Newville says her…
Continue Reading Katharine Dunn got really worried about her son Nolan even as his doctors told her she shouldn’t — the 13-year-old’s fever was…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 104 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths on…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 73 new COVID-19 cases in the area Saturday.…
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What exactly can you expect when you go to get your…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 125 new COVID-19 cases and one new COVID-19 related death in the area Friday.…
Continue Reading Eight months ago, Delia Ramos was unable to say goodbye to her husband, Ricardo, in person as he died in the hospital from COVID-19. Now, after Texas…
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For the month of March, Bonneville School District 93 schools will stay in Phase 2, Superintendent Scott Woolstenhulme announced Thursday.…
Continue Reading In counties where states require masks, COVID-19 case and death rates slow down — but in counties where states allow on-site restaurant dining,…
Continue Reading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may latch more easily onto the airway cells of those with type A blood than any other blood group,…
Continue Reading As more patients and friends get fully vaccinated, Dr. William Schaffner’s phone has been ringing constantly, his email box flooded. The fully…
Continue Reading COVID-19 testing numbers are dropping in the US. And that’s bad news. Without testing, there’s no way to keep track of where the pandemic…
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The US shouldn’t ease restrictions in place to prevent COVID-19 before the number of new coronavirus cases falls below 10,000 daily, “and…
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The COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee will meet from noon to 2 p.m. MST on Friday, March…
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A new COVID-19 vaccine appointment pre-registration system is now…
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On Thursday, the Pocatello City Council voted to continue Pocatello’s face covering ordinance for at least another month.…
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Health officials are urging us to remain alert even as more vaccines are rolling…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 299 new COVID-19 cases on…
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Health officials in Idaho have announced a new centralized state system will allow residents this month to reserve coronavirus vaccine appointments.…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 107 new COVID-19 cases in the area…
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A mass vaccination clinic opens this week in the Sam and Aline Skaggs Health Science Center on the University’s Meridian…
Continue Reading Italy invoked European Union powers to block the export of 250,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Australia on Thursday, in a dramatic escalation of a…
Continue Reading While tens of thousands of Americans are infected with the coronavirus each day and more research suggests variants threaten another surge, some…
Continue Reading Countries where more than half the population is overweight, such as the US and the UK, have recorded much higher death rates from COVID-19,…
Continue Reading The risk of death from COVID-19 is about 10 times higher in countries where most of the population is overweight, according to a report released…
Continue Reading The director of the US Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said she hopes people will decide to individually “do the right thing”…
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With recent assistance from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Home Helpers Home Care in Pocatello now has access to 6,400 COVID-19…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 452 new COVID-19 cases and 5 new deaths on…
Continue Reading Teton County Health Department has now opened registration for both the employment and higher risk population-based Phase 1c groups.…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 126 new COVID-19 cases in the area Wednesday.…
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Southeastern Idaho Public Health is urging people aged 65 and older who have not yet received their COVID-19
vaccination to call Public Health at…
The University of Idaho has reported an increase in COVID-19 positives after a recent long weekend and subsequent snow closure in Moscow.…
Continue Reading As more US COVID-19 vaccine sites begin offering one-dose Johnson & Johnson shots Wednesday, more states are easing coronavirus restrictions…
Continue Reading For the past year, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sidekick has been a blue and pink-spiked model of the COVID-19 virus. And now, he’s making sure…
Continue Reading Several states on Tuesday announced they are loosening restrictions put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, even as health experts warn against…
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As some Canadian provinces open COVID-19 vaccinations to their oldest residents, experts say meeting up with older loved ones who’ve received the…
Continue Reading “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiine! I’m begging of you please don’t hesitate,” sang Dolly Parton, riffing on her hit song…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 374 new COVID-19 cases and 4 new deaths on…
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Governor Brad Little announced Tuesday the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $39 million to the Idaho Office of Emergency…
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare will move forward with its next COVID-19 vaccine priority…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 144 new COVID-19 cases in the area…
Continue Reading President Joe Biden, announcing that drugmaker Merck will help manufacture a vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, said the United States would…
Continue Reading While health officials agree face masks help prevent the spread of COVID-19, state and local governments have varied widely on implementation of mask…
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President Joe Biden gives an update on the federal COVID-19 response. You can watch…
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The Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) will hold a briefing about the COVID-19 vaccine in Idaho at 2:30 p.m.…
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You can participate in an hour-long statewide telephone town hall with Idaho Governor Brad Little and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director…
Continue Reading When she found a lump in her left breast during a routine self-check, Boston primary care physician Dr. Devon Quasha knew exactly what to do. She…
Continue Reading Americans have received some good news lately about the coronavirus. But that doesn’t mean we’re in the clear yet, experts warn. A third…
Continue Reading And then there were three. There are now three COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration, manufactured by…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 322 new COVID-19 cases and 7 new deaths on…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 119 new COVID-19 cases in the area and two new deaths…
Continue Reading Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump received the COVID-19 vaccine at the White House in January, a Trump adviser told…
Continue Reading The Idaho Falls Fire Department has appointment times available for eligible individuals at their COVID-19 vaccine…
Continue Reading The US is at risk of losing all its recent gains in the battle against COVID-19 as highly contagious variants take advantage of Americans getting lax…
Continue Reading The US just added another powerful weapon in the battle against COVID-19: a third vaccine. The single-dose shot, from Johnson & Johnson, comes at…
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After almost a full year of grappling with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, including nearly nine months of virtual school, 11-year-old London…
Continue Reading Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisers voted Sunday to recommend the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for the US, and CDC…
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It’s easy to get caught up in all the good news about the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and…
Continue Reading Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, on Sunday urged Americans to take any of the three “highly…
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It’s easy to get caught up in all the good news about the COVID-19 pandemic. A third vaccine is on the brink of getting distributed by the…
Continue Reading The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the US economy, health care system and schools. Some experts say it’s also to blame for a recent…
Continue Reading The practice of finding new uses for old medications — called repurposing or repositioning drugs — is not new. The most famous (or…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 233 new COVID-19 cases and 1 new death on…
Continue Reading Local heath officials reported 78 new COVID-19 cases in the area…
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 312 new COVID-19 cases and 9 new deaths on…
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new recommendations Friday on the importance of good ventilation in preventing coronavirus…
Continue Reading Canada expects to receive more than 6.5 million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of March, with tens of millions more vaccines arriving between April and…
Continue Reading Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend the agency grant emergency use authorization to Johnson &…
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Just one dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine can induce a strong enough immune response in people who have already had COVID-19 that…
Continue Reading Local health officials reported 122 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths in the area…
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It has been almost a year since a jury trial has been held in Idaho, but courtrooms could soon be opening their…
Continue Reading Even with slowed infection rates and increased vaccinations, officials say another devastating COVID-19 spike could be on the horizon depending on…
Continue Reading With Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine on the verge of being authorized for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration,…
Continue Reading US Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisers are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss the potential emergency authorization of a third coronavirus…
Continue Reading About a dozen sailors and Marines onboard the USS San Diego tested positive for COVID-19 while the ship was deployed to the Middle East, the Navy…
Continue Reading A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, it appears that trends have finally shifted in a positive direction. New cases, hospitalizations and deaths are…
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