Over the last year the COVID-19 epidemic has burned a hole through Big Horn County in a way that is difficult to describe, especially if you don’t live here. Each week I’ve sat in front of my computer screen calculating mortality rates, infection rates, the difference between these rates among the age demographics, seven-day averages and other math formulas that I could never memorize despite repeating them no less than 365 times.
For those of us in the newsroom the difficulty was never about the math, it was about the people. Over the course of the last year, 69 people have ...
