The Mountain Home News uses the Idaho Division of Public Health and CDH websites to publish weekly statistics. The report dated Feb 22 was in the Feb 24 publication. This report is from statistics dated Mar 1st 2021.
The state is reporting 171462 COVID cases, and increase of 1878 cases in the past week, and 1867 deaths, an increase of 41. The state is reporting 104.5 deaths per 100K of the population. Numbers reported showed an average of 268 new cases daily which is a decrease of 7 to the prior week.
Health Care Workers make up 9591 of those cases, an increase of 154 which is down 43.
Elmore County is reporting 1610 confirmed and probable cause cases and 12 deaths. That is an increase of 20 new cases and 0 new deaths. This is a decrease of 5 new cases over last week. Elmore County shows an incidence rate of 9.3 when compared to the 100K per population.
Statewide statistics continue to decline.
The Coronavirus.idaho.gov website reported: 249,063 people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, 122,068 have received only one dose to date, 126,995 have received both doses and a total of 348,041 doses administered. Last week they were showing approximately 83% of vaccines distributed being administered, meaning in the arm statewide.
Appointments for receiving vaccines are required as doses are made available and fill quickly. Please be patient.