COVID-19
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The Park County School District #6 Board of Trustees sat in on a special session to hear the hard truth on how COVID-19 is affecting Cody’s schools, staff, and students. Superintendent Peg Monteith addressed the board, along with the most recent statistics of the number of students and staff current affected by the virus at…
Park County Public Health Officer Dr. Aaron Billin painted a dower picture of Cody’s future with COVID-19, citing alarming developments elsewhere in Wyoming and Utah as a sign of things to come. Billin posted the latest update on Park County’s COVID-19 situation on Facebook Sunday night. Always realistic and adamant in his assessment of pandemic…
Cody Regional Health has closed Monday’s drive-thru COVID-19 testing at the Cody Stampede Rode Grounds due to the well-below freezing temperatures expected. Due to the increasingly high demand for COVID-19 tests as the nation enters its “fall surge,” Cody Regional Health moved the location of its drive-thru testing from the main West Park campus to…
The Cody Visitor Center has temporarily closed due to a positive COVID-19 test amongst its staff. The Center, which is the home of the Cody Chamber of Commerce and houses staff from the Park County Travel Council and Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale, has put up signs on all its doors with contact information…
A cluster of COVID-19 cases has been confirmed on the Northwest College campus, prompting more isolation during an overall successful plan to keep students and staff safe. In an email distributed to students and employees Wednesday afternoon, NWC President Stefani Hicswa confirmed: “a cluster of positive COVID-19 cases was identified among a group of epidemiologically…
The Wyoming Department of Health has released the latest coronavirus-related deaths for the state, including one Park County man who passed away earlier in October. The department’s details say the man was not hospitalized at the time of his death. It’s unclear if he had any health conditions that worsened the virus’s effects. This is…
The local outdoor retailer is the latest Cody business to voluntarily close after an employee was exposed to a confirmed case of COVID-19. The temporary closure was announced on Saturday morning after an unidentified employee had a “COVID exposure.” The employee in question did work a shift 48 hours after the exposure but does not…
The Wyoming Department of Health is offering free at-home, mail-in COVID-19 tests for all Wyoming residents wanting to see if they are positive for the virus. The at-home test is being offered through Vault Health, the same company that has been providing on-campus COVID-19 testing at the University of Wyoming since classes resumed for the fall…
Cody’s students and teachers are persevering through the 2020-2021 school year, but there’s no denying the impact of the pandemic on everyone’s minds. Park County School District #6 Superintendent Peg Monteith continues to applaud the perseverance of the district’s staff and students, but things are “getting stressful” for everyone, especially as Park County and Wyoming…
Wednesday’s drive-thru flu shot clinic at the Cody Stampede Rodeo grounds saw a healthy number of healthy-minded people attend to get their seasonal flu vaccine throughout the day. Flu vaccines were offered at $25 per person for adults and $20 for children, with Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance all accepted. 340 people made their way…