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February 6 - 6:45 p.m.
State health officials say nine more people have died of COVID-19 in Idaho, but the number of new cases continues its recent decline. Saturday, the state confirmed just 178 new cases by lab tests. An additional 62 cases were added as probable for a single-day total of 240 new cases. The Treasure Valley (Ada and Canyon counties) combined for 99 of the day s new total cases, 41%, and five of the day s nine fatalities. Still, capita, the most significant outbreaks are in Blaine, Teton and Madison counties according to Idaho Health and Welfare.
The death toll in Idaho stands at 1,767.
Idaho is receiving about 21,000 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine each week, and according to the state vaccine advisory committee, the federal government will begin supplying Walmart and Albertson s pharmacies with doses in addition to Idaho s allotment.
Eastern Idaho Public Health uses drawing to schedule vaccinations for seniors Yeah, it s going to be work on our end but we re willing to do that to keep it as simple as possible for the seniors, the director of the health department said. Author: Brian Holmes Updated: 5:31 PM MST February 4, 2021
BOISE, Idaho Idahoans scrambled for the coronavirus vaccine like it was GameStop s stock before everyone s parents found out about it or a Turbo Man action figure on Christmas Eve when the state began allowing seniors to get vaccinated on Monday.
The rollout wasn t a Fyre Festival-level of a disaster, but St. Luke s had over 100,000 people trying to get one of the hospital system s 1,500 vaccine appointments, which were all booked within eight minutes.
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February 1 - 5:16 p.m.
After no reporting of data Sunday, Idaho health officials added 380 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 Monday, with an additional 102 cases listed as probable. The statewide total of confirmed cases is now 132,858 since March.
Ten COVID-19 deaths were also reported Monday: four in Ada County, two in Canyon County, and one each in Bannock, Benewah, Bingham and Power counties.
At the same time Idaho’s percent positivity rates have declined to 8.3%, the state’s confirmed daily case counts are coming in at low numbers we haven’t seen since October.
Similar downward trends are also reported in the most recent data available for hospitalizations and ICU admissions for COVID-19 on Jan. 30.
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Jan. 26 - 5:18 p.m.
Another seven people have died from COVID-19 as the state adds another 389 confirmed cases to its total.
Since March 13, Idaho has seen 130,908 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with another 29,684 cases classified as probable. Altogether, 1,688 people have died from the disease.
Six of Tuesday’s death occurred in Ada County, while Bonneville County reported one death.
Daily case numbers and hospitalizations continue to decline.
As of Jan. 23, the latest data available, 169 people were hospitalized 53 of them in the ICU. Hospitalizations haven’t been that low since Oct. 3. ICU admissions dipped briefly below 53 on Jan. 1 before shooting up again.