For the first time in nearly two months, Idaho did not hit another weekly peak in new coronavirus cases.
COVID-19 deaths also dropped significantly from a seven-day peak set a week ago.
It isn’t clear, however, whether the numbers reflect reporting delays due to the short week and the Thanksgiving holiday. The state did not update its coronavirus website Thursday, posting two days of numbers on Friday. Two health districts — the South Central Public Health District in Twin Falls and the Idaho Falls-based Eastern Idaho Public Health District — did not report new numbers on their websites Friday evening.
As of late Friday, the state and its health districts reported 98,967 confirmed and probable coronavirus cases, a 10 percent increase from the previous week.
This week’s numbers (and comparisons with last week):
| Statewide data | Nov. 20 | Nov. 27 | Change, Nov. 14-20 | Change, Nov. 21-27 |
| Cases, confirmed and probable | 89,899 | 98,967 | 9,795 | 9,068 |
| Total cases, ages 0-4 | 1,356 | 1,488 | 111 | 132 |
| Total cases, ages 5-12 | 3,125 | 3,472 | 386 | 347 |
| Total cases, ages 13-17 | 5,208 | 5,723 | 628 | 515 |
| Total cases, ages 18-29 | 24,143 | 26,092 | 2,360 | 1,949 |
| Deaths | 846 | 909 | 94 | 63 |
| Patients ever hospitalized | 3,492 | 3,878 | 390 | 386 |
| Patients ever admitted to ICU | 673 | 727 | 71 | 54 |
| Patients recovered, estimated | 37,232 | 39,900 | 2,750 | 2,668 |
| Idahoans tested | 448,001 | 468,895 | 23,586 | 20,894 |
| Health care workers infected | 4,749 | 4,985 | 292 | 236 |
| Positive test rate (based on all cases divided by testing numbers, as reported by the state) | 20.0 percent | 21.1 percent | +1.1 percentage points | +1.1 percentage points |
| Top five counties, by total cases | Nov. 20 | Nov. 27 | New cases, Nov. 21-27 | New cases per day, per 100,000 population |
| Ada | 23,065 | 24,910 | 1,845 | 54.7 |
| Canyon | 13,482 | 15,091 | 1,609 | 100.0 |
| Bonneville | 6,644 | 7,326 | 682 | 81.8 |
| Kootenai | 6,514 | 7,277 | 763 | 65.8 |
| Twin Falls | 6,312 | 6,734 | 422 | 69.4 |
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| Hotspot counties (weekly increase of 10 percent or higher) | Nov. 20 | Nov. 27 | New cases, Nov. 21-27 | New cases per day, per 100,000 population |
| Adams | 89 | 99 | 10 | 33.3 |
| Bannock | 3,832 | 4,355 | 523 | 85.1 |
| Bear Lake | 159 | 184 | 25 | 58.3 |
| Benewah | 234 | 272 | 38 | 58.4 |
| Bingham | 2,432 | 2,697 | 265 | 80.9 |
| Boise | 122 | 137 | 15 | 27.4 |
| Bonner | 839 | 959 | 120 | 37.5 |
| Bonneville | 6,644 | 7,326 | 682 | 81.8 |
| Canyon | 13,482 | 15,091 | 1,609 | 100.0 |
| Clearwater | 362 | 529 | 167 | 272.5 |
| Custer | 131 | 146 | 15 | 49.7 |
| Elmore | 806 | 895 | 89 | 46.2 |
| Franklin | 583 | 680 | 97 | 99.9 |
| Gem | 729 | 941 | 212 | 167.2 |
| Idaho | 659 | 757 | 98 | 84.0 |
| Kootenai | 6,514 | 7,277 | 763 | 65.8 |
| Lewis | 172 | 194 | 22 | 81.9 |
| Nez Perce | 1,990 | 2,233 | 243 | 85.9 |
| Oneida | 117 | 134 | 17 | 53.6 |
| Owyhee | 557 | 664 | 107 | 129.3 |
| Payette | 1,453 | 1,604 | 151 | 90.1 |
| Teton | 475 | 535 | 60 | 70.6 |
| Valley | 210 | 242 | 32 | 40.1 |
| Washington | 659 | 751 | 92 | 128.9 |
