/ 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.