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Boise-based Albertsons got a shot in the arm from its inclusion in the federal program to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to the public through its pharmacies. The grocery and pharmacy retailer will receive a direct allocation of  COVID-19 vaccine once it ...

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CFAC is like the Eveready Bunny: it just keeps going, despite the looming end to the relief programs authorized through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. CARES Act relief for Idaho was a $1.25 billion. Governor Brad Little formed ...

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The care providers of Idaho’s hospitals are currently faltering from staffing shortages after months of pandemic exhaustion. As a result, Governor Brad Little called up the National Guard to help with health care staffing on Nov. 13. To pay for ...

National Rural Health Day was Nov. 19, which was when the Idaho Rural Health Association held its annual awards celebration to name six as the Idaho Rural Health Heroes for 2020. The ceremony was virtual, like many others this year. ...

This article was updated at 1:20 p.m. to reflect additional information issued by the City of Boise just before noon on Nov. 19, adding separate contact numbers for businesses and patrons to use. The City of Boise will add teeth ...

With more shutdowns looming and a vaccine months away from wide distribution, governors across the U.S. are pleading for more help from Washington ahead of what is shaping up to be a bleak winter. Renewed restrictions on indoor businesses, the ...

St. Luke’s Health System has a behavioral health and applied research division, and two researchers there have just landed a $450,000 grant for a clinical study on the mental health impacts of COVID-19. The results of the study will help ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The governors of Oregon and New Mexico ordered near-lockdowns Friday in the most aggressive response yet to the latest wave of coronavirus infections shattering records across the U.S., even as many of their counterparts in other ...

The jump in COVID-19 hospitalization rates in Idaho presages a grimmer forecast: a jump in intensive care unit occupancy just seven days later. The Idaho Business Review dove into the official statistics on the pandemic in Idaho, looking for a ...

Governor Brad Little issued a call up of the Idaho National Guard to help with the staffing response at Idaho’s hospitals due to growing COVID-19 cases admitted to medical facilities. He also rolled back the state to a hybrid-version of Stage Two of ...

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