Rural health clinics in Idaho are slated to receive $4.4 million in federal funds to expand COVID-19 testing access, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday.

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct information about seniors and COVID-19. Seniors are being hospitalized with the virus at drastically lower rates.

The first two bats with confirmed rabies cases this season in Idaho were found in Bonneville and Payette counties, state officials announced Monday.

Citing strikingly improved rates of coronavirus infection and hospitalization, eastern Idaho health officials on Thursday retired a plan that guided their coronavirus response for the eight-county region that once became home to two national hotspots.

Idaho seniors did not get vaccinated at rates as high as state officials had hoped, data released Tuesday shows.

While having 70% of American adults vaccinated this summer appears likely for the nation, getting that many Idaho adults to accept vaccines is probably the best-case scenario, recent surveys suggest.

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine makes it incredibly less likely that you’ll contract the novel coronavirus. What if those benefits could be passed on?

Two weeks after children as young as 12 years old became eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, few in Idaho have received shots.

Oliver Nathan, 14, was one of the first children in Idaho to get the vaccine last week.

Data released Tuesday night shows that COVID-19 infection rates in eastern Idaho have declined to a 10-month low.

In late March, Matt Johnson's company took out a newspaper advertisement.

The special open enrollment periods in Idaho and other state and federal health insurance marketplaces did more than expand access to health care to more low and moderate income earners.

More than 330 coronavirus cases in Idaho have been caused by concerning variants, according to data released this week.

Vaccine providers in Idaho rejected more than 60,000 vaccine doses and accepted only 22,000 this week, state officials revealed Tuesday at a news conference.

About 1.1 million vaccine doses have administered in Idaho. Over half a million Idahoans have received both shots.

When Elizabeth Bowen was pulled off a ventilator and released from the hospital in late January, her fight against COVID-19 wasn’t over.

A male from Madison County in his 20s recently died from COVID-19, according to a death report email Eastern Idaho Public Health sent to news outlets Monday.

Recently released data show that females in Idaho reported post-vaccination coronavirus infections at higher rates than females across the country.

While local coronavirus infections declined and the percent of tests that return positive dropped to a 10-month low, virus-related hospitalizations have plateaued but are still high in eastern Idaho.

In Idaho, the problem is no longer having enough vaccines for its eligible residents. Now, it’s finding enough people who want the shots.

In a sign that Idaho has more COVID-19 vaccines than residents who want them, state public health officials will no longer recommend that providers ask people to prove they live or work in-state to be inoculated.

Every adult in Idaho is eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but the number of adults who've received at least one dose in Idaho is barely more than halfway toward the 80% benchmark that experts say could pave a path for the virus to be under control. And that doesn't include young childre…

Idaho is home to at least 166 people who tested positive for COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated, a rare but expected phenomenon that officials say leads to mostly mild symptoms.

Last week, when the United States temporarily halted use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Idaho public health officials saw the number of people accepting vaccines to decrease.

New COVID-19 vaccine clinics with staff that speak Spanish and English in Idaho Falls and Roberts are scheduled to open Wednesday for both appointments and walk-ins.

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All Idahoans age 16 and up have been eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines for two weeks.

Idaho health officials hope to have 80% of residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by early fall.

Local doctors on the frontlines say it’s too soon to say whether eastern Idaho’s decline in new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations will continue.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Tuesday recommended a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots, a development that could jeopardize the rollout of vaccines around the world.

Concerning coronavirus variants are likely spreading across Idaho, according to the state’s top testing official, Dr. Christopher Ball.

Mostly good news emerged this week about COVID-19 vaccines.

Her regular jumpsuit on under a new hooded painter’s suit, Kimber Dameron set off to help transfer her first COVID-19 patient.

Although new coronavirus cases dipped last week in eastern Idaho, health experts say the region’s coronavirus surge that propelled it to national hotspot status isn’t over.

In most regions of Idaho, all residents age 16 and up can start scheduling COVID-19 vaccine appointments.

Eastern Idaho health officials plan to meet 7 a.m. Thursday in what will be their first meeting in a month.

While Idaho prepares to let all adults access COVID-19 vaccines, state health officials are also bracing for a time when vaccine supply will outpace demand.

An eastern Idaho resident left with lingering COVID-19 symptoms has reached a new platform in his campaign to raise awareness about COVID-19 long-haulers.

On March 25, 2020, Gov. Brad Little ordered all Idahoans to stay home in an attempt to slow the spread of a strange, new virus that was making its way across the state. Businesses deemed unessential were shuttered. Employees were laid off in record numbers. Children were sent home from school.

All Idahoans over the age of 16 will be able to receive COVID-19 vaccines beginning April 5.

During the fall and winter coronavirus surge, two of the most common respiratory viruses fell by the wayside.

Two concerning coronavirus variants have been found within eastern Idaho, public health officials announced Monday afternoon.

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People being held in Idaho jails and prisons — hit hard by COVID-19 outbreaks — should be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccines separately from the general population.

A day before the final two county-level mask mandates expired in eastern Idaho, two of the region’s most populated counties were the nation’s worst COVID-19 hotspots.

Before the end of April, every Idahoan age 16 and up will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Last week in Idaho Falls, only four of 39 staffed intensive care unit beds were available, according to federal hospital data.