OLYMPIA — All but six of Washington state’s 39 counties will be in Phase 2 of the state’s economic reopening plan as of Sunday, with five new …
Lewiston Tribune coronavirus archive
An archive of stories -- available outside our normal paywall -- on the threat of coronavirus in our region and beyond.
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Before leaving the White House on Jan. 20, then-President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump received their first dose of the COVID-19 …
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s suicide rate dropped steeply before the pandemic, but the trend may have reversed in 2020, according to federal data.
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An at-home test for coronavirus won emergency use approval Monday from the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a bill that waives certain annual liquor license fees for restaurants, br…
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High schoolers in the Asotin-Anatone School District will return to full-time in-person learning next month for the first time since schools c…
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Dating during the pandemic is becoming less complicated and risky for attorney Shelley O'Connor.
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Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine won the backing of a panel of U.S. government advisers, paving the way for authorizati…
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NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Residents of Idaho could see millions of dollars in rental assistance during the pandemic if the governor signs a bill aut…
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday it has donated $20 million to help a program aimed at d…
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Public health officials reported 55 new COVID-19 cases in the region and no additional deaths Thursday.
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BOISE — Two Idaho lawmakers have dropped their lawsuit against the Republican-led state Legislature and legislative leadership that alleged la…
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SeaWorld Entertainment parks are still feeling the financial sting of the pandemic, with both revenue and attendance during the final quarter …
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two Idaho lawmakers have dropped their lawsuit against the Republican-led state Legislature and legislative leadership tha…
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Health officials in Idaho have confirmed the first known infection of a person in the Gem State with the United Kingdom variant of the coronav…
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The Clarkston School District would need an additional 43 teachers and 34 extra classrooms to bring its K-6 students back to full-time in-pers…
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A real-world test of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in more than half a million people confirms that it’s very effective at preventing serious illn…
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Public health officials have confirmed two more cases of Idaho residents infected with COVID-19 variants, including the fi…
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Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, U.S. regulators said, a key milestone on the path toward giving Americans acce…
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One of the enduring questions of the COVID-19 pandemic is how much immunity people are left with after recovering from a coronavirus infection…
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Idaho clamped down on access to its allotment of COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, requiring those who receive shots to show proof they live or work i…
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MOSCOW — Leaders with the Moscow School District are finalizing plans to shift all schools to four days of in-person instruction each week fol…
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A proposed law put forward by the Legislature to trim a governor’s powers while increasing its own during declared emergen…
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SEATTLE (AP) — The first known case of the coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa has surfaced in King County, and 19 additional cases…
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state Utilities and Transportation Commission has extended protections for electric and natural gas customers strugg…
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For weeks after Cindy Pollock began planting tiny flags across her yard — one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans killed by COVID-19 — th…
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Whitman County reported one new death Monday and 28 new positive COVID-19 test results over the weekend.
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The Clarkston City Council voted 7-0 on Monday in favor of asking Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to reconsider the regional approach to reopening …
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The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus.
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The region saw 17 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths reported Thursday, as the numbers continue their downward trend of recent weeks.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation to make permanent changes in Idaho’s absentee ballot counting procedure passed the Senate on Thursday and is h…
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KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Large COVID-19 vaccination sites in Spokane and Kennewick will be closed through the weekend because of weather delays…
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho lawmaker who introduced a bill to prohibit targeted picketing outside officials' homes found torch- and pitchfork…
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No new coronavirus deaths were reported Wednesday in north central Idaho or southeastern Washington as the spread of the disease in the area c…
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The icy blast across much of the U.S. injected more confusion and frustration into the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination drive Wednesday just when…
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About one-third of U.S. troops who have been offered a COVID-19 vaccine have declined the inoculation, initial Pentagon data show. The choice …
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Senate panel of lawmakers on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment allowing the part-time Idaho Legislature to c…
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Idaho officials are pleased that nearly a third of Idahoans older than 65 have received at least their first COVID-19 vaccination, Gov. Brad L…
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WASHINGTON — A Democratic-led effort to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package has passed its latest challenge with House committees adv…
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COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are dropping dramatically across the U.S., suggesting that measures to interrupt transmission are working,…
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers in the Idaho House passed legislation Tuesday to trim a governor’s powers and increase their own during declared…
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Legislature has approved a bill that would waive some graduation requirements for individual students dur…
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PULLMAN — Pullman Public Schools’ top administrator is disappointed in Washington officials for halting Whitman County’s plan to administer CO…
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A large-scale COVID-19 vaccine clinic will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories facility, 2821 J…
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state and local leaders on Monday announced a sweeping effort to raise $30 million in private and public fund…
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ATLANTA (AP) — Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months, but …
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BOISE — Idaho officials reported fewer than 250 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as cases continue to decline across the s…
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MCCALL — Kattie Kingsley became worried when she realized the COVID-19 pandemic meant cancellation of all fundraisers last year for MCPAWS Regional Animal Shelter.
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Clinics and pharmacies in north central Idaho have administered 60 percent of the 18,875 doses of COVID-19 vaccine available in the five-count…
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Students in the Potlatch School District will return to in-person education five days a week on Feb. 22 after the school board approved the re…
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — More than two dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives have called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human …
Friday, February 12, 2021
BETHESDA, Md. — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. will have enough supply of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the summer to in…
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Washington state health leaders say as the state closes in on the 1 million vaccination mark, a new report shows disproportionately low percen…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers in the Idaho state House continued their struggle Thursday to pass legislation to trim the governor’s powers and…
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. will have enough supply of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the summer …
Two more COVID-19 deaths and 19 new cases were reported in the region Wednesday.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A bill that allocates $2.2 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding in areas ranging from vaccine administration to sc…
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation taking aim at limits on how many people can gather during the coronavirus pandemic cleared the Idaho House on …
GENEVA (AP) — Independent experts advising the World Health Organization about immunization on Wednesday recommended the use of AstraZeneca’s …
ATLANTA — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday urged people to double-mask to help prevent the spread o…
MOSCOW — Some people are medically exempt from wearing a face covering, but the Americans with Disabilities Act does not require businesses to…
Another coronavirus death was reported in Nez Perce County on Tuesday, as Idaho state health officials provided updates on the progress that i…
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
The U.S. has entered a tricky phase of the COVID-19 vaccination effort as providers try to ramp up the number of people getting first shots wh…
As inoculation efforts for the coronavirus ramp up around the world, Facebook says it’s going all in to block the spread of bogus vaccine clai…
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that starting next week any nonessential traveler arriving in Canada b…
Students in Clarkston will likely continue in a hybrid learning model through the end of the school year because of a social distancing requir…
Public Health – Idaho North Central District reported the lowest Monday total of COVID-19 infections — 24 — over the weekend since Aug. 10, wh…
Monday, February 08, 2021
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Legislature’s budget committee on Monday approved $175 million for emergency rental assistance stemming from peo…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A bill that increases the minimum weekly benefit for unemployed workers during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and prev…
SEATTLE (AP) — Dozens of Washington state hospitals learned N95 respirator masks believed to be purchased from 3M Company are counterfeits tha…
Evidence is mounting that having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants. People also can get se…
The United States has now recorded more than 27 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 as the pandemic continues to rage.
SEATTLE — Dozens of hospitals in Washington state have learned that N95 respirator masks believed to be purchased from 3M are knockoffs and we…
Friday, February 05, 2021
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A girls’ basketball tournament triggered legislation introduced Friday targeting gathering-size limits due to the coronavi…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Canadian government has extended a ban on cruise ships through February 2022, which is expected to block many shi…
The region’s COVID-19 numbers increased by 39 on Thursday in north central Idaho and southeastern Washington, but no new deaths were reported.
Thursday, February 04, 2021
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation intended to speed up Idaho coronavirus vaccinations that includes a $5,000 fi…
Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 450,000 on Thursday, and daily deaths remain stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day, despi…
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite its world-class medical system and its vaunted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. fell behind in the…
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine shows a hint that it may reduce transmission of the virus and offers strong protection for three months on just…
Washington’s 9th Legislative District Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, wants Asotin County to move into Phase 2 of the state’s COVID-19 recov…
Wednesday, February 03, 2021
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers on Wednesday initiated another shot at trimming an Idaho governor’s power during an emergency event that threate…
The tally of people who have succumbed to the coronavirus in the region reached 157 on Tuesday with reports of three more deaths.
SPOKANE — Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migrant farmworke…
Tuesday, February 02, 2021
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little is moving the state into Stage 3 of his coronavirus reopening plan, lessening restrictions on the s…
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Two farm groups are suing the state of Washington for failing to revise emergency regulations that seek to protect migra…
Here’s what’s happening Tuesday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:
BOISE — Idaho state lawmakers in a power struggle with Republican Gov. Brad Little say they should have been called back into session last yea…
ASOTIN — The latest COVID-19 reopening plan unveiled by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has left some Asotin County officials scratching their heads.
Public Health – Idaho North Central District began scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments for people 65 or older Monday, in line with Go…
Students in the Lapwai School District are expected to return to full-day, in-person instruction March 1.
Monday, February 01, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet on Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed $618 billion in corona…
LOS ANGELES — After a group of protesters managed to disrupt operations at Dodger Stadium’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site Saturday, some Los …
Nope. That’s the message that Transportation Security Administration workers are now authorized to enforce against anyone trying to fly withou…
Sunday, January 31, 2021
A top health adviser to President Joe Biden warned Sunday that a new variant of the coronavirus circulating in the U.K. will likely become the…
While millions of Americans wait for the COVID-19 vaccine, hospital board members, their trustees and donors around the country have gotten ea…
Saturday, January 30, 2021
The Public Health – Idaho North Central District announced Friday that it and area vaccine providers will begin scheduling COVID-19 vaccinatio…
Friday, January 29, 2021
Idaho Gov. Brad Little flexed his executive muscle Thursday to demand greater transparency of the state’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
Move over Super Bowl. One of the hottest tickets in town these days is for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
The Latah County Prosecutor’s Office has ruled that the Lewiston City Council committed a technical violation of state open meeting law at the…
