COVID-19

As we bring 2024 to a close, Idaho Matters takes a look back at the year through the lens of public health.

Southwest District Health will no longer offer the COVID-19 vaccine at its offices.

As new COVID-19 strains circulate, new vaccines become available in Idaho.

As a new, more dangerous strain of the Mpox virus continues to spread, the disease has now been detected in individuals in both Sweden and Thailand.

COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise all across the United States, with experts saying it's being driven largely by the emergence of a new dominate strain.

Cases of COVID19 are on the rise both here in Idaho and in other areas of the country.

While we still struggle with cases of COVID-19 and its variants many are looking back over the past four years to figure out what we did right and what we did wrong, with an eye toward the next global outbreak of a virus.

The level of COVID-19 is up in Boise, at least according to the spike of the disease found in the city's waterwaste.

Avian influenza outbreaks have continued to spread, a new group of people now have the option to get the RSV vaccine and another COVID-19 variant has surged.

There's a new COVID-19 variant and experts are saying we could see a rise in cases this summer. Not to mention some folks under 65 are reporting they can't get a COVID booster shot.