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Ada, Kootenai counties account for half of Idaho s new COVID-19 cases Saturday Chadd Cripe, The Idaho Statesman
Dec. 20 Ada and Kootenai counties continued to account for a large percentage of Idaho s new COVID-19 cases Saturday.
Ada County added 262 new confirmed coronavirus cases (29,593 total), according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare s daily data update. Kootenai County added 91 (10,036 total).
The homes of Boise and Coeur d Alene accounted for roughly half of the state s 704 new confirmed cases. Idaho also added 29 new probable cases Saturday for a total of 733 new cases. The state s seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases has dropped for nine consecutive days to 1,208.3.
Viewpoint: Idaho COVID-19 vaccine rollout and hospital capacity
Medical leaders from Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke s discuss the importance of the vaccine and how their hospital staff is handling the high number of COVID-19 cases. Author: Doug Petcash Updated: 9:07 AM MST December 21, 2020
BOISE, Idaho Major news this past week in the fight against COVID-19 as the first Americans and Idahoans outside of clinical trials started receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Many people are calling it the beginning of the end of the pandemic and the light at the end of the tunnel.
The COVID-19 vaccination process started in Idaho on Monday, Dec. 14 when Saint Alphonsus began vaccinating its frontline employees.
Idaho hospitals report record COVID-19 cases in ICUs as state begins vaccinations
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As Idaho races to vaccinate health care workers, hospitals reported a record number of COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care this week.
A total of 120 COVID-19 patients were in ICUs across the state Tuesday, according to updated data the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported Friday. That number decreased to 118 patients on Wednesday, the last day data from the state was available.
There were 467 Idahoans hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 on Wednesday. That number has fluctuated between 445 and 496 since Nov. 28.
At least 944 Idahoans had received the COVID-19 vaccination as of Friday, according to Health and Welfare.
Idaho won t receive as many COVID-19 vaccines as expected next week; positivity rate drops Rachel Roberts and Jacob Scholl, The Idaho Statesman
Dec. 17 Idaho will not receive as many doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine next week as it originally expected, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
Idaho s allotment for next week was reduced from 17,550 to 9,750 doses. We don t know why it was reduced. But our focus doesn t change health care workers will continue to receive the vaccine, IDHW said in a Twitter post.
The Gem State s first shipment of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech arrived Monday, and Health and Welfare expected to receive most of the initial 13,650-dose allotment.