COVID-19 Update: June 11, 2021

The state’s positivity rate, or percent of tests that come back positive, has fallen to 3.9 percent, the lowest Idaho has seen since June 2020. That’s down from a high of 19 percent in December. The seven day moving average incidence rate is also at its lowest point since last summer, at 5.6 cases per 100,000 people, down from a high of 90 in December. As of Friday, the state has administered 1,272,000 doses of the COVID vaccine, with 623,000 Idahoans fully vaccinated. The state’s highest vaccination rate is in Blaine County, with 67 percent of residents vaccinated, while the lowest is in Idaho County, with just 26 percent vaccinated. According to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, more than 90 percent of new COVID cases are among people who aren’t vaccinated. The Idaho Department of Correction reports that 4,288 people incarcerated by the state have contracted the virus since the first recorded case in the state’s prisons last year. That means about half of IDOC’s incarcerated people have been infected with COVID-19.