Millions of Americans took advantage of ordering 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government and they've been arriving in mailboxes for the last few days.
Again with the highest number of active cases and the highest number of NEW positive COVID-19 cases, Gallatin County continues to be the 'hotspot' of Montana.
Just about everyone I know, myself included, have unintentionally started a fairly large wine collection in the last couple of years. Local retailers have confirmed that Montanans have definitely spent more money on bottles of wine since the pandemic started.
As of Tuesday, nearly 40% of all new positive COVID-19 cases in Montana were in Gallatin County. There are 408 active cases with 159 new cases recorded according to the State of Montana COVID-19 dashboard.
It hasn't been a great week for Montana's new positive COVID-19 case count. With Gallatin County's vaccination rate sitting idly at 61% (which is better than many counties in the state), where do we go from here?
Out of Montana's 1,144 new cases of COVID-19, Gallatin County had 176 of them...the highest number of new cases in the state as of Thursday morning's update.