Montana has a terrible outbreak of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID-19. Please, everyone, stop gathering. Wear a face mask over your nose and mouth whenever you’re out of your own home. Keep your distance from others.

As of Monday, November 9, 2020, Montana reports 40,053 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 427 new cases reported in the last day: 223 in Yellowstone County, 66 in Lewis & Clark County, 34 in Missoula County, 16 in Blaine County, 14 in Carbon County, and more new cases in 12 more Montana counties. Statewide, 1,492 people have been hospitalized, and a record 470 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. as of last Thursday, more than 80 people with COVID were in intensive care units and 51 on ventilators. There are 15,771 active coronavirus cases in Montana. In the past month, the number of active cases in Montana has more than tripled. The most active cases are in Yellowstone County, Gallatin County, and Cascade County, Lewis & Clark, Flathead, and Missoula Counties. 457 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. More than half of all the COVID deaths in Montana occurred in the last month. Nationwide, more than 239,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 10,200,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.