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Data-entry error results in hundreds of misclassified COVID-19 cases in Ada County Scripps 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. “We recently recognized a data-entry issue wherein some probable cases related to antigen test results were entered into the state’s system by CDH as confirmed,” district spokesperson Christine Myron wrote in an email to the Idaho St...

Idaho has gone four days with no new COVID-19 deaths -- a first since early July Nicole Blanchard, The Idaho Statesman Feb. 23—Monday marked the fourth day in a row that Idaho health officials have not reported any new deaths caused by COVID-19, the longest such streak since early July. No new deaths were reported Monday, when data for Sunday was also reported. Idaho's most recent deaths were reported last Thursday, when officials announced 10 COVID-19-related fatalities statewide. To date, 1,828 Idahoans have died of COVID-19; 101 of those were reported in February. The hop...

Idaho COVID-19 State's 7-day moving average at lowest since mid-September Nicole Blanchard, The Idaho Statesman Feb. 21—More days of declining COVID-19 case reports in Idaho have helped bring the state's seven-day moving average below 250 cases per day, marking an average last seen in September. On Saturday, state and district health officials reported 138 confirmed and 46 probable cases of COVID-19, for a daily total of 184. By Saturday, the statewide seven-day moving average of new confirmed and probable cases had fallen to 237.7. Just one week ago, that moving average was...

Idaho COVID-19 hospitalizations drop again to October level; state adds 11 more deaths Nicole Foy and Rachel Roberts, The Idaho Statesman Jan. 23—Idaho's coronavirus situation continues to improve across several metrics as the state's vaccination rollout continues. The number of Idahoans hospitalized with COVID-19 dropped again to 252 on Wednesday — the fewest people hospitalized since Oct. 20. There were 67 people hospitalized in intensive care units Wednesday, the last day the data was available. The state's seven-day case average also dropped to October levels at 615.1....

Idaho adds about 750 new coronavirus cases Wednesday. Hospitalizations drop to October level. Ruth Brown and Michael Lycklama, The Idaho Statesman Jan. 21—Editor's note: This story was corrected at 2:45 p.m. Jan. 21 to fix the count of new deaths reported. A file the Idaho Statesman uses to track cases and deaths was not properly updated, which led to many of Tuesday's reported deaths being counted twice. — — — Idaho reported 507 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday and 244 new probable cases, for a total of 751. Ada County confirmed 143 new cases Wednes...