COVID-19

UI “Strongly Recommending” Students Stay Home After This Week’s Spring Break And Not Return To Moscow The University of Idaho is “strongly recommending” that students stay home after this week’s Spring Break and not return to Moscow. The UI has also announced the cancellation of Parent and Family Weekend which used to be called Mom’s

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials in seven San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a sweeping shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting about 7 million people, ordering residents to stay at home and go outside only for food, medicine and outings that are absolutely essential. The order says residents must stay inside and venture out only for necessities

KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho – The first case of COVID-19 in North Idaho has been confirmed.  According to the Panhandle Health District and Kootenai Health, the case is in a man over 60 in Kootenai County. He is only experiencing mild symptoms and has been contacted and advised to self-isolate. This is the first case of

Yesterday, the CDC released a report of the fatality outcomes of COVID-19. The findings were that fatality was highest in persons aged ≥85.  ≥85: 10-27% 65-84: 3-11% 55-64: 1-3% 20-54: <1% <20: none This confirms what China experienced.  This leaves the question: why are we quarantining the entire population and hurting everyone when those ≥65 are the

Gritman Medical Center implemented several changes at its hospitals and clinics in response to COVID-19, according to a Gritman news release. At Gritman, patients should enter the hospital at the main or emergency entrances. Those entries will be staffed full time. A greeter will meet patients outside the entrances to ask basic questions about the

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Their response: “OK, Boomer.”  President Trump has called on young adults to ramp up their efforts to curb the coronavirus outbreak. While speaking at the White House on Wednesday, the president encouraged young people to follow his advice by limiting social interactions and self-isolating. “Every generation of Americans has been called to make sacrifices for

62% of Americans believe that the media has exaggerated the threat of coronavirus, according to a new Pew Research poll. The results of the survey found that 63 per cent of Americans believe the CDC and public health officials have got the risk of COID-19 about right, with just 21 per cent believing they have exaggerated the

Visual Capitalist has a great chart that shows the risks of getting infected with COVID-19 based on the event size and the number of active cases circulating around.  Think about our crazy, knee-jerk reaction on the Palouse. There are zero confirmed cases circulating around the Palouse. There are 7,000 cases in the US now. Cancelling

There is much discussion online that referring to the COVID-19 virus as the “Chinese Flu” is racist.  First, everything is racist these days. You cannot say anything without the progressives calling you racist.  Second, there is a history of naming the viruses by the location they originated. How soon they forget:  Japanese Smallpox epidemic (735)

Concerns about the return of Washington State University back to Pullman following this week’s Spring Break were discussed by city council Tuesday night.  Council spent the meeting discussing the coronavirus situation. Councilman Al Sorensen says he would prefer that students not return to the Palouse to reduce the threat of the virus.  You can listen

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”—Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton Notice that they didn’t ask for all prisoners to be released. 

It’s Spring Break, and 20-somethings and their parents do not care. 

Washington Postcolumnist Jennifer Rubin says thatmore Republicans than Democrats will die from coronavirus due to misinformation by President Trump and Fox News, according to theWashington Times. “There is a particular cruelty, irony that it is their core viewers, the Republican older viewers, who are the most at risk,” Rubin said during a Sunday morning discussion