CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Department of Health reported 362 new laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 during their 9 am update on Sunday, November 1.
Wyoming has now seen a total of 11,638 lab confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.
Wyoming saw a record 431 new lab confirmed COVID-19 cases Friday. 60 of them were in Natrona County. A record 120 COVID-19 patients were in hospitals across the state on Friday, according to the WDH.
14 new probable cases reported Sunday brought the state total to 2,022.
The WDH reported ten additional COVID-19 related deaths among the state’s residents on Thursday, bringing the total to 87. According to Casper Mayor Steve Freel speaking at an emergency council meeting on Saturday, 6 additional deaths are pending official notice from the Wyoming Medical Center, and eight COVID-19 patients from senior living centers were “actively dying or will die very soon.”
The average number of new lab confirmed cases per day as of Sunday is as follows:
- last 7 days: 257.8
- last 14 days: 261.3
- last 21 days: 235.3
Wyoming’s COVID cases began to surge in mid-September. Today’s average daily cases counts can compare with data from Sept. 15 as follows:
- 7 day average: 50.3
- 14 day average: 40.6
- 21 day average: 35.2
While COVID-19 is still surging in Wyoming, two states have surpassed Wyoming in terms of the “effective reproduction rate” of the virus, a measure of how quickly COVID is spreading among each state’s residents. The number denotes the average number of new cases each case is expected to create. Anytime the rate is above 1.0, the virus is expected to spread quickly.
As of Sunday morning, Wyoming’s effective reproduction rate stood at 1.28. Wyoming had the highest effective reproduction rate on Thursday, but Rt.live reported Friday that Vermont and Rhode Island have surpassed the Cowboy State on this measure.
115 new recoveries from among people with a lab confirmed case and 20 new probable cases recoveries were reported Sunday. A total of 7,399 people with a lab confirmed case and 1,277 with a probable cases have recovered in Wyoming.
The WDH reported 80 new lab confirmed cases in Natrona County on Sunday bringing the total to 1,388. Natrona saw 22 new probable cases, bringing the total to 300.
There are 543 active confirmed cases in Natrona County, according to the WDH. A total of 835 people with a lab confirmed case and 162 with a probable case in Natrona have recovered as of Sunday, a total of 8 combined recoveries in the last 24 hours.
County-specific COVID-19 information is available from the Wyoming Department of Health.
