Live at 2:30 p.m.: Health and Welfare officials discuss COVID-19 in Idaho

As the Gem State appears to be seeing the latest COVID-19 surge slow, state medical and public health leaders from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare will hold their weekly press conference on the state of the coronavirus pandemic in Idaho on Tuesday afternoon. Speakers at Tuesday's press briefing include IDHW Director Dave Jeppesen, administrator of the Division of Public Health Elke Shaw-Tulloch, state epidemiologist Dr. Christine Hahn, deputy state epidemiologist Dr. Kathryn Turner, chief of the Idaho Bureau of Laboratories Dr. Christopher Ball and Sarah Leeds, the manager of the Idaho Immunization Program. The media briefing, which will be held by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, will begin at 2:30 p.m. MT.