COVID surge accelerates in Jeff. Co. as Montana leads nation in per-capita case increase

Coronavirus cases are surging in Jefferson County, mirroring a statewide trend driven by low vaccination rates and the delta variant that gave the state a 55% increase in per-capita cases over the past two weeks—the highest in the nation in that time.

On Monday, the Jefferson County Health Department released a report showing 27 new cases since the prior Thursday, Sept. 16, and 41 active cases that day. No county residents were hospitalized on Monday—a decrease from two last week—and the county’s death toll remained at nine, following a death reported in late August.

Active cases on Monday were spread across all ages but concentrated in people younger than 50, with 12 cases in people 19 or younger, five cases in people in their 20s, seven cases each in people in their 30s and 40s, five cases in people in their 50s, two cases in people in their 60s and three cases in people in their 70s.