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Health officials reflect on one year anniversary of coronavirus in Idaho MGN Infectious disease specialist Dr. Richard Nathan recalls those early days. "When we first had the outbreak, it really started in Ketchum, which became national news, it was a huge super spreader event." Continues Nathan "It's been crazy, especially the last oh I guess six months. Because after the first case we started getting more and more cases, and it's been just absolutely crazy. We've had to make all sorts of emergency plans in the hospitals at the local level and just make adjustments in all of our behavior. An...

Vaccines for Community Members Anticipating in the Coming Weeks Published online: Dec 17, 2020 Articles, East Idaho Health Viewed 2226 time(s) IDAHO FALLS – A limited number of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines arrived at the pharmacy for Mountain View Hospital and Idaho Falls Community Hospital on Monday for frontline healthcare workers. The current doses, which will not be enough to cover healthcare workers at both hospitals, will be given to employees in Idaho Falls Community Hospital’s emergency department and intensive care unit. More vacc...

REXBURG — A hospital in eastern Idaho began inoculating health care workers on Monday with a very limited number of initial doses of Pfizer’s newly approved COVID-19 vaccine, signaling what could be the beginning of the end for the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Russ McUne in Rexburg became the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Idaho, three public health sources told the Post Register. Media and the public watched as McUne, who works at rural Madison Memorial Hospital with just four-staffed intensive care unit beds, was vaccinated. “As a ER physician working frontline...

Snake River Valley residents have access to new outpatient COVID-19 treatment KIFI/KIDK IDAHO FALLS, ID (PRESS RELEASE) – Patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 have a new treatment option that could reduce their chances of needing to be hospitalized because of the virus. In late November, the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for casirivimab and imdevimab to be used to treat COVID-19 positive patients who may be at high risk of developing severe symptoms and could end up in the hospital. Recently, the pharmacy for Idaho Falls Community Hospital and M...