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Idaho Health And Welfare Knew COVID-19 Data From Schools Would Be Inconsistent

Boise State Public Radio News
Published June 7, 2021 at 9:23 AM MDT

Idaho Health and Welfare reported about 16,000 children with COVID-19 between September and late May. School reports of COVID infections differed, totaling about half that number. As Troy Oppie explains, Health and Welfare knew early-on the data would be far from perfect.
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