As of Thursday, September 10, 2020, Montana reports 8,663 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 196 new cases reported in the last day: 75 in Yellowstone County, 25 in Rosebud County, 15 in Big Horn and Silver Bow Counties, 9 in Cascade, Glacier, and Missoula Counties, 7 in Gallatin County, 4 in Flathead and in Jefferson County, 3 in each of Chouteau, Custer, Hill, and Park Counties, 2 in each of Deer Lodge and in Wheatland Counties, and 1 in each of eight more Montana counties: Broadwater, Carbon, Liberty, Madison, Sanders, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, and Toole County. Statewide, 512 people have been hospitalized, and 163 people currently are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. Yellowstone County has had 2,394 cases so far. Gallatin County has had 1,134. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 1,808. The most active cases are in Yellowstone County, with 720 active cases. Gallatin County has 47 active cases of coronavirus infection. 123 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Nationwide, more than 192,000 Americans have died. There have been 6,410,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

A new study warns that the coronavirus is “a life-threatening disease in people of all ages.” The research from Harvard found that among 3,222 young adults hospitalized with COVID-19, 88 young adults died — about 2.7 percent. One in five required intensive care, and one in 10 needed a ventilator to assist with breathing. Nearly 60 percent of those hospitalized were men, and a similar percentage were Black or Hispanic.

The NFL kicked off its 101st season Thursday night when the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs welcomed the Houston Texans to a sparsely filled Arrowhead Stadium. To follow health protocols to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the Chiefs allowed only a smattering of socially distanced fans into their stadium, long regarded as one of the NFL’s loudest and most raucous. only 17,000 spectators — largely a lucky pool of season ticket holders — attended in-person in the stadium, about 22 percent of Arrowhead’s capacity of more than 76,000. Most NFL teams are not permitting fans in the stadiums. Fanless games will look particularly jarring when the Las Vegas Raiders, the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers play in their glimmering, brand new stadiums. More than five dozen NFL players opted out of the 2020 season because of concerns over the virus, which has killed more than 190,000 people in the U.S.

Kansas City offensivelineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a medical school graduate, is among those taking the season off. He is spending the fall working at a long-term care facility in his native Canada in hope of treating elderly patients most at risk of COVID-19.

Americans on Friday are marking a day of remembrance on the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Memorials for those killed in the attacks now stand at all three sites in New York, Arlington, Virginia and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Pentagon crash site was quickly rebuilt after the attacks. A new tower at the World Trade Center site now rises above the Manhattan skyline as the tallest building in the United States.