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In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 file photo, Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, attends the State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building in Boise, Idaho. Scott, who was in Washington, D.C., for the Trump rally that preceded the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, opened her state's legislative session in January 2021 by declaring “the pandemic is over." She said Idaho's more than 1,600 COVID-19 deaths at that time amounted to "nowhere close to a pandemic.” The average number of daily COVID-19 cases is falling in Idaho, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, but the death roll has risen to more than 1,800 people.

In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016 file photo, Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, attends the State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building in Boise, Idaho. Scott, who was in Washington, D.C., for the Trump rally that preceded the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, opened her state's legislative session in January 2021 by declaring “the pandemic is over." She said Idaho's more than 1,600 COVID-19 deaths at that time amounted to "nowhere cl…

March 1, 2021

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Some GOP state lawmakers help spread COVID-19 misinformation
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Some GOP state lawmakers help spread COVID-19 misinformation

Many Republican lawmakers have criticized governors’ emergency restrictions since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. Now that most legislatures are back in session, a new type of pushback is taking root: misinformation.