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City Club of Boise COVID-19 became a common household term approximately a year ago and has since become a central tenet in our lives.  Now several vaccines to combat the disease have been approved and distribution is underway for health care providers, the elderly, and high risk groups and plans are advancing to vaccinate general populations. Find more on Idaho's vaccination strategies here.   Panel: Patrice Burgess, MD, Regional Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Executive Medical Director for St. Alphonsus Medical Group, Idaho COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee Chair Ted Epperly, MD,...

'Presumed positive': Canyon County jail skips coronavirus testing for different approach Ruth Brown, The Idaho Statesman Dec. 22—The Ada County Jail, which has housed roughly 900 people daily in December, had conducted 3,088 coronavirus tests among inmates as of Dec. 18, and 373 of them were positive. The jail in Twin Falls County, which houses up to roughly 200 inmates daily, had done 671 coronavirus tests as of Dec. 17, and 287 were positive. At the Canyon County jail, meanwhile, where roughly 400 people are in custody each day, there have been only four inmates tested for...