As of Thursday, September 3, 2020, Montana reports 7,871 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 184 new cases reported in the last day: 58 in Cascade County, 33 in Yellowstone County, 25 in Flathead County, 17 in Rosebud County, 10 in Big Horn County, 5 in Lake and in Silver Bow Counties, 4 in Roosevelt County, 3 in Valley County, 2 in each of nine more counties: Carbon, Deer Lodge, Gallatin, Glacier, Hill, Lincoln, Missoula, Ravalli, and Stillwater Counties, and 1 in each of six more Montana counties: Dawson, Fergus, Madison, Sanders, Sweet Grass, and Toole Counties. Statewide, 472 people have been hospitalized, and 151 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. Yellowstone County has had 2,200 cases so far. Gallatin County has had 1,088. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 2,033. The most active cases are in Yellowstone County, with 982 active cases. Gallatin County has 47. 111 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Nationwide, more than 186,000 Americans have died. There have been 6,130,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

A student at Sentinel High School in Missoula has tested positive for coronavirus. The school district emailed parents of students after the case was confirmed on Monday. Missoula’s Sentinel High School will not allow the individual and any close contacts back into school facilities until they are released from isolation or quarantine by the Missoula County Health Department. There is no school closure due to the case of COVID-19.

In Maine, a wedding on August 7 stared a coronavirus outbreak that now includes 134 coronavirus cases, including illness in a jail and a nursing home. The outbreak that began at the wedding has spread to the York County Jail in Maine and the Maplecrest Rehabilitation & Living Center. The wedding in Maine violated attendance limits, and just a week ago, 53 positive coronavirus cases had been linked to the wedding, but now the numbers have more than doubled.

Warner Bros.’ superhero thriller “The Batman” has halted filming in the United Kingdom just days after resuming, after a crew member tested positive for coronavirus. The person is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is suspended. The shutdown comes days after the gritty comic book adventure went back into production following months-long filming delays. “The Batman,” starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, was about seven weeks into filming when cameras stopped due to the pandemic. The movie has about three months left to shoot and had hoped to be done filming by the end of the year. Numerous productions were stopped when the virus began to intensify last spring, and very few blockbusters have resumed filming amid the global health crisis. “Jurassic World: Dominion” was the first major movie to restart and has been back to work at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. since July.

Concerns about potentially dangerous complications from coronavirus infection even among young athletes has arisen, after tests show that about a third of student athletes in the Big Ten Conference with the coronavirus who were given cardiac MRI’s had heart inflammation known as myocarditis. One doctor said, “What we have seen in student athletes who had cardiac MRI scans is that symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID infections cause a level of inflammation in heart muscle that is just alarming.” The unknowns around heart problems from the virus are part of the reason the Big Ten conference decided to hold off on playing.