/ Wyoming’s Platte County and Colorado’s San Miguel County each have a population of a little over 8,000 people. Both counties entered June 2021 with high covid transmission rates and sustained them for several weeks straight. Despite different overall levels of vaccination, both counties are dealing with pockets of unvaccinated residents.
WHEATLAND, Wyo. Brandon Graves said covid arrived in Wheatland the way new movies do in this High Plains farming town: months after hitting the big cities and without much fanfare.
“It kind of trickled in and it never really exploded here,” said Graves, a lifelong resident and mayor of the town of about 3,500, the largest in Platte County.
Red state, blue state, twin outbreak: Behind Wyoming and Colorado s anomalous COVID spikes
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New Mexico COVID-19 update: 378 new cases, totaling 207,566
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Seven additional COVID-19 deaths
SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials on Friday announced 188 additional COVID-19 cases. Per the state Department of Health, the most recent cases are:
· 45 new cases in Bernalillo County
· 4 new cases in Chaves County
· 1 new case in Cibola County
· 3 new cases in Colfax County
· 5 new cases in Curry County
· 18 new cases in Doña Ana County
· 13 new cases in Eddy County
· 3 new cases in Grant County
· 1 new case in Hidalgo County
· 2 new cases in Lea County
· 4 new cases in Luna County
· 2 new cases in McKinley County
· 2 new cases in Otero County
· 1 new case in Quay County