COVID-19
The latest news on COVID-19 and how it affects Northwest Montana.
Relief funds recommended to recruit health care workers
A commission created to allocate federal COVID-19 relief funding to help stabilize Montana's economy recommended...
Covid surge pushes Kalispell hospital over capacity
Logan Health opened its temporary alternate care unit this week as a mounting number of Covid-19 patients continues to tax the Kalispell hospital’s bed capac...
Dems seek investigation of AG's possible 'abuse of power'
Democratic leaders in the Montana Legislature are asking for an investigation into whether the attorney general abused his power by sending a Montana Highway...
Covid-19 treatment clinic opens at Butte hospital
The state has helped open a monoclonal antibody infusion clinic at St. James Health in Butte as part of an effort to reduce the severity of Covid-19 cases an...
Hospital: Public officials threaten doctors over Covid care
Three public officials threatened doctors at a Helena hospital after they refused to treat a Covid-19 patient with ivermectin, a drug to treat parasites that...
Nine school districts offer free Covid testing
Nine school districts are offering free rapid Covid testing to staff, K-12 students and parents at three Kalispell and Evergreen locations.
54 hospitalized with Covid at Logan Health
The number of patients at Logan Health Medical Center hospitalized with Covid-19 reached a new high Wednesday.
Covid cases stress Logan Health bed capacity
Logan Health Medical Center continues to be challenged by an influx of mostly unvaccinated Covid-19 patients, with the Kalispell hospital routinely approachi...
National Guard to assist at Logan Health hospitals
Logan Health hospitals in Kalispell and Whitefish are set to receive assistance from the Montana National Guard as Covid-19 patients continue to tax the loca...
Gianforte sends National Guard to aid in virus response
National Guard soldiers will assist Montana hospitals with their Covid-19 response as the state struggles with a surge in infections, Gov. Greg Gianforte ann...
Covid surge pushes Billings Clinic past the tipping point
Nurses fill the hospital room to turn a patient from his stomach to his back. The ventilator forcing air into him is most effective when he’s on his stomach,...
Sanders County health officer resigns to ease conflict
The public health officer in a politically conservative county in northwestern Montana has resigned his post to ease what his resignation letter called "the ...
UM study explores vaccine hesitancy in Montana
As the delta variant grips the nation, understanding the “why” behind Montanans choosing to get vaccinated — or not — is the topic of a National Institutes o...
What are 'crisis standards of care?'
As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved health care rationing in Idaho and parts of Al...
Sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100 million Americans
President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to in...