A few thoughts… On being worried and enraged in 2024
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist It’s time to write something clever about the new year. Or at least something. We get an extra day in 2024, and we get to go through an election...
Tagged: covid
Bonner County COVID disaster terminated
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners voted unanimously April 12 to terminate the local disaster emergency the board declared on March 16, 2020, putting an end to the county’s formal acknowledgement of...
‘Cautiously optimistic’
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Idaho is closing in on the end of its official coronavirus pandemic emergency status, as Gov. Brad Little announced in early March that the state would cease its emergency...
Two years of COVID
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Two years ago on this day I was out of a job — and, for the first time in my job-hopping life, it was involuntary. I remember it well,...
Statewide COVID situation continues to improve
By Reader Staff Last week, state health officials reported that Idaho had met the “peak” of its latest novel coronavirus surge, propelled by the highly contagious omicron variant. This week, data continued to indicate...
Little reactivates National Guard for COVID response
By Reader Staff Gov. Brad Little announced Jan. 31 that he would activate the Idaho National Guard for the fourth time during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic “to alleviate the impacts of COVID-19 in...
The Lumberjill: School closures, COVID and fatigue — tragedy in too many acts
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist It finally happened — the thing I’ve been dreading for the two years since the last time it happened: classroom closure due to COVID. Two years later, and...
COVID-19 quarantine guidelines altered
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new coronavirus guidelines Dec. 27, stating that individuals carrying asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 can shorten their isolation period from 10 to...
Top Idaho health officials outline COVID-19 vaccine rollout
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine begins to ramp up in Idaho, state health officials and Gov. Brad Little offered a pair of briefings Jan. 5 focused on...
Kootenai Health: Hospital capacity at 99% due to ‘surge’ in COVID-19 cases
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Statewide cases of COVID-19, the illness resulting from the novel coronavirus, have continued to exceed previous levels of positivity since the global pandemic began in earnest in mid-spring 2020,...
