Frontline stories: Casper doc innovates with new respiratory clinic
Seeing the need to insulate his hospital from a surge of potential COVID-19 patients, a Wyoming physician dreamed up and created an ad-hoc clinic.
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COVID-19 daily briefing: April 1, 2020
Your daily dose of the numbers and other developments regarding the coronavirus pandemic in Wyoming.
New model predicts Wyo COVID-19 deaths, ICU shortages
Wyoming could see 143 deaths by Aug. 4 and the peak count of daily deaths would come in 26 days, according to a researcher. Resource demands peak in 32 days.
COVID-19 daily briefing: March 31, 2020
Your daily dose of the numbers and other developments regarding the coronavirus pandemic in Wyoming.
Policing a pandemic: Wyo law enforcement amid COVID-19
Calls and crime are down, at least one jail turned detainees loose and new protocols are designed to minimize contacts but “We’re still police officers. We’re still enforcing the law.”
The Drake’s Take
Toilet paper, guns & ammo: How will you survive the pandemic?
Opinion
By 2 Comments In the face of the outbreak, many Wyomingites have visited their grocery and gun stores in search of what they need most.
Madden’s Measure
Exposure: Wyoming’s economy in this recession
Opinion
By 2 CommentsEconomist Michael Madden parses which sectors will be hardest hit by the current economic crisis and how they overlay with the state’s economy.
Op-eds
My pledge of allegiance
Opinion
By 6 CommentsInstead of blindly reciting the pledge, guest columnist Jeanne Raney considers what allegiance means in the modern age.
Wyoming democracy, Soviet-style
Opinion
By 5 CommentsThe party meddling that has followed Sen. Mike Enzi’s retirement announcement effectively rigged the 2020 election, columnist Dodson writes, and is unfair to voters.
Photo Friday
Touchdown
A golden eagle leaves an ephemeral imprint in the snow near Kaycee.
Arts & Culture
‘A Woman Tenderfoot no longer’
‘Mountains to Manuscripts’ exhibit in Jackson spotlights women writers in the state between 1900-1950.
In Case You Missed It
Wyoming doc works around COVID-19 testing bottleneck
A shortage of viral transport medium has slowed COVID-19 testing nationwide. Now, at least one Wyoming MD is using a simpler, more common, CDC-backed substitute: medical saline solution.
Hospitals prepare for worst, hope for best, lament limited testing
Medical professionals are gearing up for an onslaught of COVID-19 patients they hope won’t arrive and say a dearth of testing leaves them in the dark.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Wyoming’s nuanced suffrage identity, 150 years on
As celebrations commence across the state, some of the Equality State’s leading women unpack Wyoming’s legacy.