With Wyoming’s COVID count increasing, Wyoming Health Officer Dr. Alexia Harrist said she wasn’t surprised by it but was concerned. She also said the department is monitoring the monkeypox virus.
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Some Wyoming health experts are skeptical of a medical report prepared by Harvard and the Brown School of Public Health that said the state could have had 70% fewer Covid deaths had everyone taken the vaccine.
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The Cheyenne Regional Medical Hospital no longer has any COVID patients in its wards, something that has not been seen in more than a year.
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Wyoming’s public health officer is softening her stance on the value of the latest COVID-19 booster shots, urging residents to speak with their doctors before getting a second booster as recommended by federal health officials.
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A federal judge this week dismissed a lawsuit against the state of Wyoming and several school districts over mandates issued during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Gov. Mark Gordon announced Monday that he has begun the process to end Wyoming’s COVID-19 public health emergency declaration.
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The state reported 316 new laboratory-confirmed cases and 87 new probable cases, leaving the state with 1,797 active cases for Thursday.
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A Cheyenne health official is encouraging vaccinations and boosters among Wyoming children after she has seen nearly 1,000 children in the area catch COVID in the last month.
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The Secretary of Defense told Gov. Mark Gordon that despite objections, the Air and Army National Guard members in Wyoming will have to be vaccinated against COVID.
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The Natrona County health officer said that Wyoming is “exploding” with omicron cases of COVID, and encouraged people to get their booster shots of the vaccine to keep from being infected.
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Although more people in Cheyenne’s hospital are vaccinated for Covid than not vaccinated, the reason is due to not receiving the booster shot said Laramie County’s health director.
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Both U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis praised the decision made by President Biden to withdraw his federal vaccine mandate earlier this week.
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Most people in the Cheyenne hospital being treated for Covid have been vaccinated. Despite this, the state’s public health officer said the vaccine is still effective.
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The state reported 1,029 new laboratory-confirmed and 321 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 7,346 active cases for Thursday.
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The state reported 1,041 new laboratory-confirmed and 551 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 7,123 active cases for Wednesday.
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The number of Wyoming deaths blamed on the coronavirus since it was first detected in the state has increased to 1,601, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday.
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The state reported 3,097 new laboratory-confirmed and 988 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 6,641 active cases for Tuesday.
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The state reported 946 new laboratory-confirmed and 297 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 3,540 active cases for Thursday.
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The state reported 743 new laboratory-confirmed and 246 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 3,263 active cases for Wednesday.
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An assistant U.S. Attorney in Wyoming is suing President Joe Biden and a group of other federal officials over the requirement for federal employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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The department announced Tuesday that another 16 deaths that occurred in December and January have been tied to COVID.
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The largest school district in Wyoming will rescind its mask mandate later this month, despite rising active COVID cases across the state and nation.
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The state reported 1,364 new laboratory-confirmed and 298 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 3,085 active cases for Monday.
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In a reverse of decisions, the University of Wyoming late last week announced that it would forego mass testing everyone who would spend time on campus in the spring semester to instead allow for voluntary COVID testing.
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No city or town in Wyoming will be under a mask mandate beginning in the new year after Jackson will let its requirement expire at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31.
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Wyoming has now seen its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Friday.
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A Wyoming nonprofit organization has asked a U.S. District Court to let it join a lawsuit over mask requirements in place in some school districts across the state.
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The state reported 97 new laboratory-confirmed and 22 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 1,091 active cases for Thursday.
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***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter*** By Tim Mandese, Cowboy State Daily Wyoming’s active coronavirus case total increased by 28 on Wednesday. Wyoming Department of Health figures showed that the department received reports Wednesday of 98 recoveries among those with confirmed or probable cases. At the same time, the state reported 111…
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The state reported 103 new laboratory-confirmed and 53 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 1,035 active cases for Tuesday.
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Gov. Mark Gordon has joined four other Republican governors in sending a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Defense about the federal vaccine mandate for soldiers in the National Guard.
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The number of Wyoming residents whose deaths have been tied to coronavirus has grown to 1,502, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday.
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Wyoming’s active coronavirus case total decreased by 259 over the weekend.
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The Cheyenne hospital has continued to see a high number of COVID patients since the summer, causing other emergency patients having to be boarded in the emergency room for a time.
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The state reported 130 new laboratory-confirmed and 50 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 1,426 active cases for Thursday.
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Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis announced on Wednesday that they will vote against President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate.
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U.S. House candidate and state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, is calling for the removal of the COVID vaccines, which he referred to as the “clot shot.”
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U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-TX, said Hageman and some other Republicans are not telling the truth about a immunization bill that 80 Republicans — including LIz Cheney — voted for.
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At least two school districts and the Wyoming Department of Health have asked the U.S. District Court to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a group of Wyoming students and their parents.
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Cheyenne Regional Medical Center employees have been told to either get vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly tests, the hospital’s CEO announced this week.
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Gov Gordon praised a U.S. District Court ruling that halts President Biden’s vaccine mandate requiring health care workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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More than 2,300 children in Wyoming have received the Pfizer COVID vaccine since it became available, according to numbers released by the Wyoming Department of Health.
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The state reported 134 new laboratory-confirmed and 111 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 2,321 active cases for Wednesday.
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Gov. Mark Gordon signed the one bill that made it through the recent Wyoming Legislature special session that pushes back against the federal vaccine mandate.
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Laramie school board members have extended the school district’s mask mandate for K-12 students until mid-December, around the time students leave for the holiday break.
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Wyoming has the highest number of COVID cases among nursing home residents in the nation, according to data released by the AARP this week.
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Wyoming on Wednesday filed a third lawsuit aimed at stopping the federal coronavirus vaccine mandate proposed by President Joe Biden.
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The state reported 307 new laboratory-confirmed and 104 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 2,786 active cases for Wednesday.
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The Wyoming Department of Health announced 55 more Wyoming deaths have been linked to Covid-19.
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All across Wyoming, school staff are feeling the strain as the pandemic wears on.
The number of deaths among Wyoming residents related to the coronavirus climbed to 1,243 on Tuesday, the Wyoming Department of Health reported.
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The deaths of another 25 Wyoming residents have been linked to coronavirus, according to to the Wyoming Department of Health.
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A bill named after and and inspired by the Laramie teen arrested at her high school for refusing to wear a mask has been filed for consideration by Wyoming’s Legislature.
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Fremont County Sen. Cale Case said the Wyoming Legislature cannot hold a special session every time “a bunch of people get mad at something.”
A Laramie teen who was arrested following not wearing a mask at her high school is now planning to attend an online school, her father told Cowboy State Daily.
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Both former Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney publicly mourned the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday.
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Grace Smith, the Laramie High School student who was arrested following her refusal to wear a mask at school, officially withdrew from the school on Wednesday.
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Grace Smith and her father Andy Smith appeared on Fox News on Tuesday to discuss the fallout from her arrest for failure to wear a mask at Laramie High School.
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The school in Ten Sleep has canceled in-person classes for the next week due to a lack of teachers.
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The number of Wyoming residents whose deaths have been linked to the coronavirus since it was first detected in the state has grown to 1,080, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday.
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Rawlins High School officials canceled all of the school’s homecoming-related activities late last week due to a COVID “situation” at the school.
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Cheryl Hackett of KCWY in Casper announced on her social media profile last week that she was leaving the station due to her vaccine exemption request being denied.
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A teenage girl who defied the mask mandate implemented by the Albany County School District was arrested on Thursday.
The state reported 375 new laboratory-confirmed and 191 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 3,749 active cases for Wednesday
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A longtime Cheyenne news anchor was fired from her job over the weekend due to her refusal to get vaccinated against the coronavirus and her exemption from getting vaccinated was denied.
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The number of Wyoming residents whose deaths have been tied to coronavirus has increased to more than 1,000 with Tuesday’s announcement that the deaths of another 45 residents have been linked to the illness.
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The state reported 341 new laboratory-confirmed and 287 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 3,266 active cases for Tuesday.
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The state reported 627 new laboratory-confirmed and 183 new probable cases, leaving Wyoming with 3,174 active cases for Monday.
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A Cheyenne attorney and former congressional candidate has declared YouTube’s ban of anti-vaccination content from its platform to be illegal censorship and in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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The board of trustees for the hospital in Gillette made it clear late last week that it would not be pushed around by the federal government regarding a vaccine mandate.
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The Wyoming Department of Health received reports of 1,510 recoveries among those with confirmed or probable cases between Friday and Monday.
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Two months after announcing its vaccine incentive program, the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has seen a 15% increase among employee vaccinations.
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Wyoming’s active coronavirus case count decreased by 87 on Tuesday from Monday.
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A number of organizations in Wyoming that have implemented vaccine incentive programs have seen at least some success, officials told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday.
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The number of Wyoming deaths blamed on coronavirus grew to 955 on Tuesday as the Wyoming Department of Health released its latest compilation of COVID-related deaths.
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Gov. Mark Gordon is activating the Wyoming National Guard to temporarily assist with local hospitals due to a high number of COVID patients.
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Wyoming’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have dropped to fewer than 200 this week, after the state saw its second-highest peak earlier this month.
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The Laramie County Community College campuses in Cheyenne and Laramie will require its employees to wear masks due to a little more than half of its staff being vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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Despite reports of a few new COVID cases among students, the Wyoming Department of Health has no data to support the idea that the season’s first University of Wyoming home football game was a virus “super spreader.”
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The University of Wyoming has extended its mask mandate for an indefinite period of time, the university announced on Friday.
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A University of Wyoming law professor explained that President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for large employers is likely constitutional.
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The Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department is offering a new COVID vaccine incentive to help increase Wyoming’s fairly low numbers as cases continue to rise across the state.
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State health officer Dr. Alexia Harrist refused to sign off on a Goshen County health variance that tried to get around the local school district’s mask mandate.
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Laramie County School District 1, which encompasses Cheyenne, implemented a mask mandate on Wednesday night after the board of trustees held a special meeting to discuss the possibility.
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A number of Wyoming Republicans have come out and condemned COVID vaccine mandates, even saying employers terminating employees for refusal would be discrimination.
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Gov. Mark Gordon is allocating $30 million in federal funds to provide staffing relief and support for current health care staff and to secure traveling medical staff.
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As of Tuesday, the state had 230 COVID patients, with Cheyenne Regional Medical Center having the most, with 52 patients, according to the Wyoming hospitalization tracker.
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The Wyoming Dept of Health said vaccines offer better protection against COVID than natural immunity.
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In a reverse of a decision made less than one month ago, the board of Wyoming’s largest school district is considering implementing a mask mandate.
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The number of Wyoming residents whose deaths have been tied to the coronavirus has climbed to 879, the Wyoming Department of Health announced Tuesday.
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