Missoula City County Health Department COVID 19 Incident Commander Cindy Farr provided the latest video update on the pandemic on Thursday afternoon, and said there were a number of hospitalizations and deaths reported in the previous week.
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services released a report on Monday stating that those who are unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated are five times more likely to be hospitalized and three times more likely to die from COVID.
The financial website Wallet Hub, as of this week, has placed Montana in the bottom 10 ranking of the safest states in the U.S. during the COVID pandemic, meaning 40 states are safer to live in Montana during the pandemic, and that Montana has the second highest rate of COVID hospitalizations.