You still need to mask up in Boise. What to know and when the city s mask order may end Hayley Harding, The Idaho Statesman
Apr. 7 In much of the Treasure Valley, you don t need in a mask anymore.
In Boise, you still do but Mayor Lauren McLean talked Tuesday about when she may consider dropping that requirement.
Masks are still recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the best ways to help limit transmission of COVID-19. But most places in the Treasure Valley have dropped their requirements for masks, opting instead to encourage people to wear them or to stop mentioning them at all.
Data-entry error results in hundreds of misclassified COVID-19 cases in Ada County
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and last updated 2021-03-04 23:57:11-05
Through Thursday, Central District Health was reporting 39,529 confirmed cases and 7,603 probable cases in Ada County. Health and Welfare, however, showed Ada County with 39,988 confirmed cases and 7,165 probable cases.
âWe recently recognized a data-entry issue wherein some probable cases related to antigen test results were entered into the stateâs system by CDH as confirmed,â district spokesperson Christine Myron wrote in an email to the Idaho Statesman. âWe are working to reconcile this, and as we continue to do so, the confirmed cases on the stateâs site will come down, and the number of probable cases will go up.
Feb 10, 2021
BOISE, Idaho (AP) A number of state and federal judges and court staffers are getting some of Idaho’s limited doses of coronavirus vaccine even though they are not on the state’s priority list, jumping ahead of older people who are supposed to be at the front of the line.
State officials, health care providers and eager vaccine seekers have interpreted the rules differently in Idaho and nationwide, creating a hodgepodge of rules that leaves some court workers who interact with prisoners and the public protected from the coronavirus while others will have to wait months for a shot.