Coronavirus case numbers are not updated over the weekend. The news as of Saturday, July 3:

Unvaccinated people are “variant factories,” say infectious diseases experts. Unvaccinated people do more than merely risk their own health. They’re also a risk to everyone if they become infected with coronavirus because the only source of new coronavirus variants is the body of an infected person.

A blaze on the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico resembling a large “eye of fire” with orange flames that look like molten lava was caused by a gas leak from an underwater gas pipeline. Pemex, Mexico’s oil company, dispatched firefighting boats as the fire raged a short distance from a Pemex oil platform.

Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital will pay a $2 million settlement to the family of a former Montana State University football player who died in the hospital in 2015. The family sued after his death, claiming that negligence on his doctors’ part led to his death.