BILLINGS. - RiverStone Health held a press conference with local health leaders on Wednesday to give an update on COVID-19 in Yellowstone County. County Health Officer John Felton says the county is seeing more hospitalizations and COVID-19 infections because of the Delta variant. He says the county has 50% more confirmed Delta cases than any other counties in Montana. In Yellowstone County, to date, Felton says, more than 1,300 people have been hospitalized with the virus since the beginning of the pandemic, and only 17 of those people were fully vaccinated. Among the 284 deaths from COVID-19 in the county, only four were fully vaccinated.