Editor s Note
This story was compiled almost completely from the reporting of Lee Montana newspapersâ staff over the past nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It started the way most Montana storms do, signs of trouble coming on the west wind.
On Leap Day, Saturday, Feb. 29, Washington state reported the countryâs first COVID-19 death, the first healthcare worker infected, and the first known outbreak in a care facility.
By early March, a few Montanans began to worry. Many others paid scant attention to the gathering storm.
Indeed, some battle lines were already being drawn.
Four Western Montana Republican legislators attended the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where a New Jersey doctor who had paid big money to attend VIP events, snapping selfies with big-name attendees including Ted Cruz, tested positive for the virus.
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