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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...

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 ...