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/ 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.
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The Platte County, Wyoming, visitor center and Chamber of Commerce are on the southern edge of Wheatland, an agricultural town in the High Plains known for its proximity to good fishing spots. Thirteen residents of the county have died of COVID-19, according to the state health department.
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WHEATLAND, Wyo. Brandon Graves said COVID-19 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.
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CHEYENNE According to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH), COVID-19 Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 19 today, which is the first time hospitalizations have fallen below 20 since September 28.
On September 28, there was also 19 hospitalizations statewide, according to the WDH hospitalization report. One month ago today on January 22, hospitalizations were at 75. The state’s peak was 247 hospitalizations on November 30, 2020.
Wyoming Medical Center in Casper has the most hospitalizations in the state with eight patients. SageWest Health Care in Lander has the next most with three hospitalizations, and Platte County Memorial Hospital has two hospitalizations.
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Among Wyoming residents, there have been 45,746 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases, 44,619 case recoveries, and 662 deaths since the start of the pandemic. The state currently has 8,154 probable cases and 552 active lab-confirmed cases. There were 609 active cases on Friday.