Pandemic continues to improve across Wyoming

An important milestone this week offered further evidence that Wyoming may have passed the worst of its winter wave of COVID-19. For the first time since the end of September, active cases fell below 1000 on Saturday.

The decline has been ongoing since the end of last year as the number of people recovering from the novel coronavirus began to outpace the number of new infections. This week’s milestone represents a precipitous drop from the all-time high of 11,861 active cases, which was recorded near the end of November.

This positive statistic is supported by a continued decline in hospitaliz...