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According to the governor's announcement, counties can ask for a variance to keep the mandate in place.

Morgan Hughes Wyoming will lift its mask mandate next week, Gov. Mark Gordon’s office announced Monday. The state will also allow bars, restaurants, theaters and gyms to resume normal operations on March 16 after nearly a year of working on precautions meant to limit COVID-19s spread.  “I thank the people of Wyoming for their commitment to keeping one another safe throughout this pandemic,” Gordon said in a statement. “It is through their efforts that we have ...

Natrona County Health Officer calls Johnson & Johnson vaccine potential “game changer” David Graf © Provided by Cheyenne-Scottsbluff KGWN-TV Natrona County Health Officer and Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Mark Dowell explaining how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could be a "game changer" in an interview on February 25, 2021. CASPER, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) - The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine could be coming soon after the FDA deemed it “safe.” It would provid...

By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily Wyoming’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have continued to decline since hitting a peak of more than 230 in late November, with only 84 people hospitalized as of Thursday. According to the Wyoming hospital tracker, this was a slight increase over the 81 patients hospitalized as of Wednesday, but still is a decline from the beginning of the week, when around 88 patients were hospitalized due to the virus. Natrona County Public Health Officer Dr. Mark Do...

4:59 For almost a year, Susie Scott hasnt been able to volunteer or see her children without a mask for longer than five minutes. "That human touch is, I dont care who you are, everybody needs that," said Scott. Scott, a resident of Albany County, is over 70 and has an underlying health problem that puts her at high risk for serious illness if she were to contract COVID-19. Since December, when it was announced vaccines were going to be made available, she has eagerly been waiting for her turn....

WATCH: Dr. Dowell on the COVID Vaccine- Do the Right Thing Enter your number to get our free mobile app Dowell began by stating that hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are down across the state, but especially in Natrona County. "Our ICU has few, if no patients with COVID right now, due to the community masking and doing their job," he stated. "For that," he added, "I applaud you completely." Dr. Dowell then spoke on the news of different variants of COVID-19 that have recently become public. Dow...

With Gov. Mark Gordon’s public health orders meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 set to expire, a departing Wyoming Republican lawmaker is organizing a protest at the Wyoming State Capitol on Monday to urge those orders not be renewed, though infection numbers have fallen off since the orders took effect. Outgoing Rep. Scott Clem, R-Gillette, plans to march on the Wyoming State Capitol at noon Monday to “peaceably assemble and protest the tyranny of our Wyoming State Governor,” ...

Week 40: The pandemic in Wyoming from Dec. 12-18 The first COVID-19 vaccines in Natrona County are issued on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, at the Casper-Natrona County Health Department. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City) Wyoming healthcare providers this week administered the state’s first COVID-19 vaccines to frontline healthcare workers, offering a ray of hope in controlling the pandemic. “We have an end in sight at this point, which was not true for many months during this pandemic,” State Health Off...

Natrona County health officials said Thursday that a proposed county exemption from some of the restrictions included in the latest public health orders will not pass at the state level given Wyoming’s current COVID-19 transmission and case rates. While the state is still in the White House’s “red” zone — the second-most dangerous classification, and one that reflects high rates of positive tests and deaths — the Wyoming Department of Health is not approving any va...

"I am sure," he said in a video posted to Facebook. Enter your number to get our free mobile app "It shows that it works, it shows that it can save lives and it needs to continue until we can get a lot of the population vaccinated," he added. "Its incredibly exciting and I want to thank the entire community for stepping up and doing this." Dowell added that residents cant let their guard down. Theres no better evidence that masking is working, he said. Last week, bars in Wyoming began closing a...