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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. Dowell stated that the virus is "mutating," or changing itself, in order to survive. He said this happe...

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,” he said Monday in a Facebook post, claiming that Gordon views Wyoming residents as “subjects to...

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 Officer Dr. Alexia Harrist said in a release announcing the first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vac...

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 variances, State Health Officer Dr. Alexia Harrist told county health officer Dr. Mark Dowell, he said...

"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. "It's incredibly exciting and I want to thank the entire community for stepping up and doing this." Dowell added that residents can't let their guard down. There's no better evidence that masking is working, he said. Last week, bars in Wyoming began closing at 10 p.m. under a separate health order.