UI lifts mask mandate while vaccination rates remain low
Neither masks or vaccines are required at the university

On May 17, President Scott Green announced that face masks would be lifted at the University of Idaho in response to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.    The CDC stated that fully vaccinated people can continue normal activities without wearing face coverings and social distancing if these […]

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OPINION: Ignoring our call to action
Kootenai County refusing their civic duty every day of this pandemic

Since June, Moscow’s mayor and local officials have had an ordinance requiring face masks in public. Just a little over an hour away, where I live and go to school at the University of Idaho satellite campus, is the lake and resort town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Here and in the surrounding cities of Rathdrum, Post Falls, Hayden, and others there has been little to no mask requirements, except for the few chain businesses and corporations requiring them nationwide.