Hollingshead says the jail had an obligation to keep inmates safe from COVID 19, and that failing to do so would have left the county "in a position of extreme liability."
Governor Mark Gordon announced on Tuesday that Wyoming guard members would be assigned to help hospitals across Wyoming cope with surging COVID-19 cases.
The latest numbers also continued a trend of a large majority--but not all--of the COVID patients at CRMC being people who were not fully vaccinated against the virus.
Chapman said federal statistics show that people who are vaccinated are ten times less likely to die or become seriously ill from the virus, and five times less likely to become infected at all.
A Wyoming man who was intubated and put on a respirator due to COVID-19 has started a GoFundMe page to raise money to buy shoes for the CNA's who took care of him.