The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by almost 400 on Wednesday, according to Wyoming Department of Health figures.
Wyoming’s active coronavirus case count fell by almost 500 over the weekend, according to state Department of Health figures.
The reporting of more than 1,400 recoveries among coronavirus patients brought the number of active coronavirus cases to the lowest point seen in more than two months on Monday.
Booster shots, the long-anticipated answer to the more contagious delta variant of COVID-19, have arrived in Teton County, helping residents breathe a bit easier through their third winter with the virus.
At first, submissions to the Teton County Health Department’s COVID-19 complaint form were helpful. On Sept. 1, for example, an anonymous tipster wrote that Cultivate Cafe didn’t have public signage announcing the county’s mask mandate, according to records obtained by the Jackson Hole Daily.
Wyoming’s total number of active coronavirus cases dropped by 39 on Thursday to fall below 4,000.
During a busy Wednesday afternoon of COVID-19 testing at St. John’s Health Urgent Care, two men in camouflage uniforms stood out.
The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming grew by 372 on Wednesday, according to Department of Health figures.
The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming fell below 4,000 to start the week, according to Department of Health figures.
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis in her monthly newsletter reiterated her stance on COVID-19, the deadly virus which has hospitalized as many Wyoming patients in recent weeks as it did at the height of the pandemic.
Teton County residents at risk of severe COVID-19 infection can expect additional immunity against the coronavirus as early as next week, thanks to rapid Wyoming approval of Pfizer booster doses.
Wyoming’s total of active coronavirus cases increased by 108 on Thursday, according to state Department of Health figures.
The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming climbed back over 4,000 on Wednesday as 475 new active cases were recorded.
On the same day Wyoming announced another Teton County death linked to COVID-19, Gov. Mark Gordon called in the Wyoming National Guard to assist understaffed hospitals.
Teton County added 61 new COVID-19 cases between Friday and Monday, bringing total active infections to 212, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.
Victor Elementary School will issue its own mask mandate in defiance of Teton County School District No. 401.
The number of Wyoming deaths tied to the novel coronavirus climbed over 900 on Tuesday as the Wyoming Department of Health announced 39 more deaths.
The Wyoming Department of Health has released guidance for who should think about receiving a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, following the federal's government's recommendation that immunocompromised people do so.
Wyoming’s COVID-19 case count hit an ominous milestone Tuesday, eclipsing 1,000 active infections for the first time since February.
The number of active coronavirus cases in Wyoming increased by 245 on Wednesday, the largest single-day increase in that total since mid-January.
Rising COVID-19 cases and an increasingly prevalent delta variant have raised the antennae of public health officials, who are considering how to react.
If you experienced delayed results using the Curative kiosk for COVID-19 testing in the past few weeks, you aren’t alone.
Last summer, businesses across Jackson sporadically put up signs: “Closed due to COVID-19 exposure.” Even if staff members weren’t sick, they were quarantined because of their proximity to the coronavirus.
The St. John’s Health Urgent Care clinic saw a sudden influx of patients who had contracted the COVID-19 virus and needed to be hospitalized over the weekend. Other patients experienced delays as a result.
The Hole Scroll
Teton County's COVID-19 risk level has bumped up in response to an increase in new cases, the percentage of cases due to community spread and other local metrics.
The Hole Scroll
In an unsurprising announcement, the Wyoming Department of Health said Thursday that most recent cases of COVID-19 are in unvaccinated people.
Despite the best efforts of public health officials, Wyoming still ranks 48th among states for the percentage of adults who have received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine and 47th for those who are fully vaccinated.
The Hole Scroll
The deaths of six more Wyoming residents have been linked to the coronavirus, the Wyoming Department of Health reported Wednesday.
With 80% of adults over 18 fully vaccinated in Teton County, vaccinated individuals now make up the majority of the community. Now health officials are launching an innovative vaccination effort to further increase the community protection from COVID-19.
To mask or not to mask?
Teachers and students will finish the school year the same way they started it, wearing masks.
Teton County School District No. 1 advised Munger Mountain Elementary School families on Friday that students who rode Bus 17 in the morning or afternoon this past week may have been exposed to a COVID-19-positive individual.
One girl swung her arm back and forth, her fingers hanging toward the floor. A boy tapped away at the screen of his phone. Others sat backwards in their chairs, chatting with friends from a safe distance.
The Hole Scroll
Clinics for kids 12 and up to get Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine have been scheduled.
As other counties and states make headlines by tying COVID-19 vaccinations to benefits like free drinks, Teton County is wondering what role it can play in incentivizing people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
This Just In
For the first time since the pandemic started, Teton County has entered the “green” risk level.
This Just In
Most middle school students may soon be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Much has happened in the past 284 days: The United States chose a new president, schools went virtual, and Grizzly 399 went into and emerged from her den with four cubs intact.
In the mid-20th century polio ravaged the United States, causing paralysis in more than 15,000 people each year. Vaccines created in the 1950s and ’60s have helped bring the disease to the point where no documented cases have originated in this country since 1979.
The Hole Scroll
The deaths of three more Wyoming residents are being attributed to the coronavirus, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday.
It was a gloomy Saturday, but the volunteers checking people into a weekend vaccination clinic at the Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole were chipper, bordering on festive, as a steady stream of masked people made their way through the doors to get poked.
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