FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2021, file photo, Jack Kingsley R.N. attends to a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. The summer that was supposed to mark America’s independence from COVID-19 is instead drawing to a close with the U.S. more firmly under the tyranny of the virus, with deaths per day back up to where they were in March 2021. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, File)(Kyle Green/AP / FR171837 AP)

Idaho Matters Friday Reporter Roundtable unpacks all the news that made headlines this week. On today's show: the state of COVID-19, Idaho's overwhelmed hospitals, masking in schools, continued critical race theory debates and more.