The Wyoming Department of Health has announced nine more deaths of state residents related to the coronavirus.
There have now been 77 deaths in the state related to the virus.
The confirmed deaths include five residents of a Big Horn County long-term care facility:
- An older adult Big Horn County woman who died last week. It’s unclear whether the woman was hospitalized; she had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the coronavirus
- An older adult Big Horn County woman who died last week. It’s unclear whether the woman was hospitalized; she had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
- An older adult Big Horn County man who died last week. It’s unclear whether the man was hospitalized; he had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
- An older adult Big Horn County man who died last week. The man was hospitalized; it’s unclear whether he had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
- An older adult Big Horn County man who died last week. It’s unclear whether the man was hospitalized; he had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
The other four confirmed deaths include:
- An older adult Laramie County man who died earlier this month. The man was hospitalized in another state and had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
- An older adult Platte County man who died earlier this month. The man was hospitalized in another state and had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
- An older adult Albany County man who died last week. It’s unclear whether the man was hospitalized; he was a resident of a local long-term care facility and had health conditions recognized as putting patients as higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
- An older adult Lincoln County woman who died last week. The woman was hospitalized in another state and it’s unclear whether she had health conditions recognized as putting patients at higher risk of serious illness related to the virus.
Deaths among Wyoming residents are added to the state’s coronavirus-related death total based on official death certificate information and the location of the person’s permanent residence.
Deaths among Wyoming residents who pass away in other states are not counted in both states.
If death certificates do not describe the coronavirus as either causing or contributing to a person’s death, those deaths are not included in Wyoming’s count of coronavirus-related deaths.
There have been 24 deaths announced in October alone, the most recent of which were seven deaths late last week.
