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Health and Welfare adds COVID-19 vaccine tracker; Idaho reports more than 1,800 new cases and last updated 2020-12-15 21:49:59-05 The public can now keep track of how many COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Idaho using the tracker posted on the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s website. On Monday, health care workers at Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg were the first Idahoans to receive the new Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. As of Tuesday, 38 vaccine doses had been administered statewide, according to IDHW. Hospitals throughout Idaho are expecting to receive their first vac...

St. Louis Public Schools Board member Donna Jones on Monday walks to Clyde C. Miller Academy ahead of the closed/virtual board meeting to read over her notes and pray before the board was to vote on whether  to keep the high school open or close it. Photo by Lawrence Bryant The St. Louis Public Schools Board Tuesday night postponed a vote Tuesday night on whether to close 11 schools next year. The Board followed the recommendation of  Superintendent Kelvin Adams’ recommendation to wait 30 days for additional feedback and brainstorming. The Board met ...

Record positivity rates reported across Idaho as COVID-19 cases continue to soar Nicole Foy, The Idaho Statesman The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Idaho continues to worsen by nearly every metric the state uses to track it. Thursday, updated positivity rates reported by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and local health districts broke records again. Roughly 20% of Idahoans tested were positive for the coronavirus last week, up from 18.3% the previous week. That means roughly one of every five Idahoans tested had the coronavirus last week. Positivity rates for four ...

Disbelief, sad, heartbroken, inequitable, disgusted, unsure, concerned, and angry. Those were all one-word responses given during a virtual meeting Monday night of approximately 100 people to discuss actions that activists and others feel need to be taken after Superintendent Kelvin Adams recommended the closure 11 St. Louis public schools. Seven of those schools are located north of Delmar Boulevard. WePower, which hosted the meeting is an organization that works to engage communities for social change by providing education and other resources for activists, entrepreneurs and change makers....

>> just deep sadness. just like -- just right down to the middle of all of us. >> reporter: grief counselors and extra security teams were at schools as class resumed in k w newto newtown, tuesday. sandy hook elementary has been closed. it's not clear when students will restart school, when they do, the classrooms will look the same as they did before the attack at monroe elementary. still everyone here knows they will never be the same. 20 friends, teammates, brothers and sisters will always be missing. jay gray, nbc news, newtown, connecticut. now for a look at the weather including that w...