Jerry Seiffert For Congress issued the following announcement on March 3.
Although the risk of infection of COVID-19, also known as novel coronavirus, to the general public remains low, local and state health organizations and school districts are ramping up in expectation that the illness is likely to spread.
“There are no cases in Idaho that we know about at this time,” Mike Larson, a nurse with Public Health — Idaho North Central District at Lewiston, said Monday. “But I guess the most important thing in reviewing the media that I saw from western Washington (is) where they have new cases over the weekend and they were not directly linked to international travel or other known causes. This may be now more community spread, person-to-person, in ways that we kind of knew would occur, but weren’t expecting it yet.”
Original source here.