Sheridan County adds 74 more cases of COVID over the weekend

In Sheridan County 74 more cases of COVID-19 have been identified since Friday. 

According to COVID-19 Public Information Officer Jennifer Graves, 53 of those cases are lab confirmed and 21 are probable. Sheridan County has experienced 3,256 lab confirmed cases since the pandemic began and 931 probable cases. 

With the recovery of 75 patients from the virus over the weekend there are now 220 active cases in the Sheridan County community.

Eleven patients are currently hospitalized in Sheridan County suffering from the virus. 

According to the Associated Press, President Joe Biden’s aggressive push to require millions of U.S. workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is running into a wall of resistance from Republican leaders threatening everything from lawsuits to civil disobedience, plunging the country deeper into the culture wars that have festered since the onset of the pandemic.

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon has announced he will push back against the mandate in the courts. In a statement from his office, Gordon told the public that he has asked the Attorney General to stand prepared to take all actions to oppose this administration’s unconstitutional overreach of executive power. 

“It has no place in America. Not now, and not ever,” Gordon said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list Sheridan County’s Level of community transmission as HIGH. 

More COVID-19 information is available at www.sheridancounty.com/covid-19/.