What will our ‘new normal’ be after COVID-19? Experts predict what Idahoans can expect
Dr. David Pate, CEO of St. Luke’s Health System, talks about highlights and challenges of healthcare in Idaho during his leadership. Dr. Pate retired at the end of January.
DARIN OSWALD Idaho Statesman
Is it too soon to be talking about life after the pandemic?
Nearly 1 million vaccine doses have been administered in Idaho. More than 415,000 people in Idaho are fully vaccinated. Idaho is also slowly making progress on tackling inequities in vaccine access and uptake, especially among racial and ethnic minorities. Increasing numbers of Latinos, the state’s largest minority group and a community that bore a disproportionate share of the state’s cases for most of the pandemic’s course in Idaho, are getting the vaccine.
Our state and country still have quite a few hurdles left. More-contagious variants are spreading and seem to be transmitted more easily by younger people and children. Idahoans are still losing their lives every week to COVID-19, as the state recently surpassed 2,000 COVID-19 deaths.
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