As of Saturday, August 1, 2020, Montana reports 4,081 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 117 new cases reported in the last day: 26 in Yellowstone County, 16 in Flathead and in Gallatin County, 9 in Missoula County, 8 in Lewis & Clark County, 7 in Big Horn, Cascade, and Ravalli Counties, 3 in Silver Bow County, 2 in each of Beaverhead, Dawson, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Wibaux Counties, and 1 in each of Blaine, Carbon, Glacier, Granite, Lincoln, Madison, Richland, and Stillwater Counties. Statewide, 230 people have been hospitalized, and 71 people are currently being treated in the hospital for COVID-19. Yellowstone County has had 1,048 cases so far, and Gallatin County has had 864. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 1,564. The most active cases are in Yellowstone County, with 550 active cases. Gallatin County has 152 active cases of coronavirus infection. 61 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Nationwide, more than 156,000 Americans have died.

260 kids at a Georgia YMCA camp have tested positive for COVID-19. The camp didn’t make campers wear masks, nor did the camp have proper ventilation in buildings. Campers ranged in age from 6 to 19 years old, and many of the staffers were teenagers. Cabins had between 16 to 26 people. The camp followed disinfecting rules and required staff to wear masks, but campers didn’t have to wear face coverings. Large groups of kids slept in the same cabin where they regularly sang and cheered, likely leading to the spread of coronavirus. Younger kids were infected at a higher rate than older kids, and the rate of infection also was higher in kids who were at the camp for longer periods of time. Kids sickened with COVID-19 reported symptoms of fever, headache and sore throat.

Saturday’s Major League Baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers was postponed due to multiple Cardinals players testing positive for COVID-19, one additional player as well as three staff members. That’s added to three players who have already tested positive for COVID-19. This comes after two Cardinals players tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday postponing that game as well.

A school that re-opened in Indiana this past week had to quarantine students within hours. The school did not even make it a day before being forced to address a coronavirus exposure. Just hours into the first day of classes on Thursday, Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana was notified by the health department that a student who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested positive for the coronavirus. Administrators began an emergency protocol, isolating the student and ordering everyone who had come into close contact with the person, including other students, to quarantine for 14 days. To avoid the same scenario, hundreds of school districts across the country that were once planning to reopen their classrooms, many on a part-time basis, have reversed course in recent weeks as infections have spiked in many states. Of the nation’s 25 largest school districts, all but six have announced they will start fall classes with remote learning only.