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Park County Health Department said they continue to see a high level of infections with more than 30 new cases identified since Monday May 3 with four people hospitalized over the weekend.
Many of those cases are in schools and are mostly related to sports activities with a few cases in the Shields Valley.
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In all cases except one, people who have become ill were unvaccinated and were gathering indoors without masks.Â
The Butte-Silver Bow Health Department announced one more death related to COVID-19 on Monday May 10.
Gallatin County Health Officer Matt Kelley said the number of COVID-19 cases have slowly decreased in recent weeks with around 16 daily cases per 100,000 people, the target limit is 25 cases per 100,000 people according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mask mandates and other public health requirements for businesses to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Montana are no longer enforceable, after Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed legislation substantially limiting the authority of local health boards.
The governorâs office Friday announced that House Bill 257, sponsored by Rep. Jedediah Hinkle, R-Belgrade, was among a slate of bills signed in recent days.
Businesses can still elect to require that customers wear masks in their facilities, but under the bill, local health requirements that they do so are no longer enforceable. HB 257 removes the ability of local governments and health officials to issue ordinances or resolutions that deny customers access to a businessâs goods or services, or that require a business to do so.
Gallatin County residents can now sign up directly for COVID-19 vaccine appointments through the county as availability of doses widens.
The change in the countyâs sign-up process was announced and became effective Tuesday. Since late March, residents were able to sign up for a waiting list through the county, which then sent appointment invitations to those on the list.
More than 15,000 people have signed up for the waiting list since April 1, according to the county, and over 95 percent of those waiting for a vaccine have been invited to sign up for an appointment.
The county will reach out to those remaining on the list with appointment invitations, according to a county news release.
BOZEMAN, Mont. â Gallatin County continues urging residents to get on their COVID-19 vaccine waitlist but in the meantime they are finding ways to be more efficient with the doses they have.
Gallatin County Health Officer Matt Kelley talked about ways to get people fully vaccinated quicker in a COVID-19 update on Friday discussing ways to use the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine over at Montana State and other specific places in the county.
Kelley said a big push for those Johnson & Johnson shots is to fully vaccinate students as the semester ends on April 30 so they wont have to follow up with a second dose in three weeks when they are out of school and not in the county.
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