New research from Idaho State University found that Hispanics in rural southeastern Idaho communities had low rates of vaccine hesitancy and refusal.

There are many reasons for Idaho’s hospital staffing shortage.

An Idaho Falls hospital has partnered with the state to administer treatment that helps keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital.

The entire state of Idaho is already under a formal hospital resource crisis.

Recently, a patient in Texas needed an intensive care unit bed.

On the same day as a last-resort hospital crisis plan was activated statewide for the first time ever, eastern Idaho health officials appointed one of the plan’s authors to serve as a board member.

All of Idaho has now been declared under a hospital resource crisis that allows for health care to be rationed.

Hospitals in the Treasure Valley and Magic Valley could soon be rationing scarce health care resources if COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise, a top Idaho health official said Tuesday.

The Eastern Idaho Public Health board — which oversees everything from COVID-19 control policies to more typical responsibilities such as septic licenses and restaurant inspections — is preparing to add a new doctor to its ranks.

In Pocatello, one nursing home can’t take new residents.

Regional health officials reported four new COVID-19 deaths Thursday in eastern Idaho.

Officials from 14 hospitals across eastern and southeastern Idaho signed a letter saying their intensive care units and inpatient hospital floors are regularly pushed to capacity, re-upping requests for community members to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

In north Idaho, patients should expect longer wait times and care in makeshift rooms as hospitals, which are stretched thin treating hordes of COVID-19 patients, struggle to provide routine levels of care.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare declared a hospital resource crisis throughout northern Idaho due to a “massive” surge in COVID-19 patients, the agency announced in a news release Tuesday.

A newsletter from the office of the Idaho lieutenant governor used a misleading number to disparage the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, the Post Register found after talking with an office staffer and three outside experts.

Idaho officials on Tuesday announced bundles of aid in hopes of saving the health care system from a resource crisis.

The delta variant has taken the nation by storm — sending hospitals in low vaccination pockets into a scramble to maintain normal standards of care.

Arlene Cranford, a 56-year-old cancer survivor, worried about what side effects the COVID-19 vaccine might bring. Until she realized that no matter what, she was at risk.

As part of the Idaho Falls' Deaf Awareness Celebration on Saturday, nurses and pharmacists will be stationed downtown with interpreter tablets at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic.

Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer/Bio-N-Tech COVID-19 vaccine.

Intensive care unit admissions for COVID-19 recently hit an all-time high in Idaho. Coronavirus cases have barreled upward. And hospitals are “dangerously close” to a resource crisis.

Amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections fueled by the delta variant, COVID-19 vaccines and masks will be required for musicians and staff at the Idaho Falls Symphony.

Eastern Idaho Public Health will soon send a letter to every doctor in nearby towns and cities to promote a vacant position on its board.

Eastern Idaho health officials bristled at the suggestion of more coronavirus restrictions Friday, backing vaccines as crucial while a statewide surge threatens to send Idaho hospitals into a resource crisis.

Masks will be optional this school year in Idaho Falls, school officials recently said, despite a plea from local doctors for mandates in elementary schools.

Idaho Falls hospitals bogged down with COVID patients

This surge of new COVID-19 cases doesn’t look like last summer’s surge.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday announced that fully vaccinated people in coronavirus hotspots should resume wearing masks indoors in public.

A Blackfoot hospital system is one of four rural health clinics in Idaho slated to receive nearly $350,000 in combined federal funds to raise vaccine confidence.

To understand why COVID-19 cases are rising in Idaho, you don’t have to look far.

The only doctor with a vote on COVID-19 pandemic control policies in eastern Idaho recently stepped down from her role.

After a monthslong lull, coronavirus infections and hospitalizations are surging in Idaho while state health officials spot more cases caused by the ultra contagious delta variant.

Idaho officials are gearing up to boost their capacity to put coronavirus test samples through genetic sequencing to identify concerning mutations.

Two of the biggest barriers preventing Idahoans from getting vaccinated for COVID-19 are concerns about the vaccine’s safety and ease of getting time off work, according to a state-commissioned survey released Wednesday.

The nation arrived at this goal two months ago.

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.