CASPER, Wyo. — On Monday, March 8, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) reported 110 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the last update Friday, March 5.
There have been 46,507 total confirmed cases in Wyoming since the pandemic began. Probable cases rose by 29 over the weekend to 8,396.
The WDH reported 21 COVID-19 hospitalizations on Friday, with 24 reported on Sunday. Hospitalizations in Wyoming peaked on Nov. 30, 2020 at 247.
No additional COVID related deaths were reported Monday. 11 additional COVID related deaths were reported on Tuesday, March 2. Wyoming has seen 682 total COVID related deaths since the pandemic, including 132 Natrona County residents.
Natrona County saw six new confirmed cases reported over the weekend, bringing the total to 5,781 on Monday. Four additional probable case were reported, bringing the total to 1,952.
Statewide, 45,340 people with a confirmed case of COVID have reportedly recovered, with 182 recoveries reported over the weekend. 31 additional probable case recoveries brought the total to 8,241.
5,647 confirmed case recoveries have been reported in Natrona County, in addition to 1,920 probable case recoveries, a combine 14 recoveries over the weekend.
“A lab confirmed or probable case is defined as recovered when there is resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and there is improvement in respiratory symptoms (e.g. cough, shortness of breath) for 24 hours AND at least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared,” the WDH says. “Cases with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 who have not had any symptoms are considered recovered when at least 10 days have passed since the date of their first positive test and have had no subsequent illness provided they remain asymptomatic.”
WDH Public Information Officer Kim Deti explained that the department marks people as recovered once their isolation order date has expired. People who test positive are asked to remain in isolation until 10 days since their first symptoms or 10 days after their test was taken, or longer if they are still showing symptoms.
If people need to be isolated longer than their initial isolation period, they can contact the WDH who can extend their isolation order. Deti said that in some cases, contact tracing informs whether a case is considered recovered while in others, the department counts someone as covered after their isolation period concludes.
The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project announced this week that it will no longer track the effective reproduction rate in favor of other metrics.
County-specific COVID-19 information is available from the Wyoming Department of Health. Lab confirmed cases in each county are as follows (probable cases in parentheses):
- Albany: 3,533 (384)
- Big Horn: 884 (200)
- Campbell: 4,205 (480)
- Carbon: 1,358 (120)
- Converse: 510 (463)
- Crook: 386 (32)
- Fremont: 4,135 (786)
- Goshen: 1,065 (89)
- Hot Springs: 267 (93)
- Johnson: 420 (292)
- Laramie: 6,986 (1,290)
- Lincoln: 1,076 (184)
- Natrona: 5,787 (1,952)
- Niobrara: 67 (83)
- Park: 2,473 (150)
- Platte: 393 (205)
- Sheridan: 2,409 (628)
- Sublette: 550 (131)
- Sweetwater: 3,707 (146)
- Teton: 3,319 (78)
- Uinta: 1,754 (322)
- Washakie: 696 (192)
- Weston: 527 (96)
