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Gianforte calls on Biden to increase Montana vaccine allocation   Greg Gianforte Gov. Greg Gianforte said the state's vaccination rollout is going well despite being held back by the allocation size of the federal government. At a press conference last Friday Gianforte said nearly 100,000 vaccines had been administered in the state and a almost 25,000 people have been fully immunized. He said this is good news but the current allocation from the federal government is insufficient, being one of the lowest allocations per capita among the 50 states. He said he believes Montana deserves a la...

Gianforte discusses pandemic, vaccine roll-out and bills   Last updated 1/25/2021 at 11:47am Gov. Greg Gianforte said Friday that COVID-19 trends in the state continue to look good with new cases-per-day dropping dramatically in the last two weeks and the vaccine roll-out continuing despite limited supplies from the federal government. In a press conference, he said no hospitals in the state are at or above capacity and nearly all long-term care facility staff and residents will have received their first vaccine dose by the end of the month, with nearly 13 percent of tribal communities ha...

ST. LOUIS — Kate Miller, a nurse at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital, spent 12 years in intensive care units, and she’s trained for crises with the U.S. Army Nurses Corps. “But the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything I had ever seen before,” Miller said Friday during a briefing by the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force. On her first day caring for COVID-19 patients, Miller pushed together the beds of a dying couple so they could hold hands one last time. A few weeks ago, a patient who had been talking to her daughter one night earlier was at death’s door b...

Tues day and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE: An active-duty U.S. soldier died last week from COVID-19, the Army confirmed Tuesday, marking the military’s second active-duty death and 14th death overall during the pandemic. Sgt. Setariki Korovakaturaga, a 43-year-old soldier assigned to the 44th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 2nd Theater Signal Brigade in Baumholder, Germany, died last Wednesday while en route to...