COVID-19

A smaller dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine cleared its first regulatory hurdle Tuesday for use in children ages 5 to 11-years-old, after a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted to recommend it for emergency use authorization.So what will this mean for getting covid under control and to a manageable level?

According to housing experts there is a perfect storm happening right now — increased demand for housing and an historically low supply of housing that’s available.

City of Good is a Boise-based nonprofit that was founded at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. In fact, the pandemic was the driving force behind its mission to help feed people who found themselves in a tough place do to the COVID-19 crisis.

The Idaho Matters Reporter Roundtable gets you up-to-date on the news that made headlines this week including: Boise City Council elections, impacts of COVID-19 on children, higher education enrollment increases and more.

Elko County Nevada is reeling from a spike in COVID-related deaths after the delta variant surged across the West. It’s the latest challenge for an area that was already struggling with a doctor shortage.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on health care workers across the country as they struggle with another onslaught of patients. How has this affected the future doctors of our state?

Boise State University officials pushed to keep in-person events going as the state’s health care industry buckled under a flood of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients.

Idaho’s COVID-19 test positivity rate and hospitalization rate have been declining over the last few weeks, making some health officials more confident that we might be past the peak of the COVID-19 delta surge. But they say it's still too early to tell.

Employment in the health care industry is down by more than half a million since February of 2020 and many are reporting feeling burned out, including medical school students who are just entering the profession.

Indian Country Today collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health to provide comprehensive data and maps to the public.