As of Tuesday, November 2, 2021, Montana reports 178,114 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 1,144 new cases of coronavirus infection reported since yesterday: 232 new cases in Yellowstone County, 136 new cases in Gallatin County, 120 new cases in Cascade County, 102 new cases in Lewis & Clark County, and more new cases in 46 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 9,506. Currently, 371 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. 2,380 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Fourteen more people’s deaths have been reported since yesterday. Nationwide, more than 747,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 46,100,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

In the state legislature in Arizona, Senate President Karen Fann, who was instrumental in arranging the state’s sham election “audit,” will not seek reelection to the state legislature in January 2023. Fann spearheaded the partisan review of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County that failed to prove fraud in the Arizona 2020 election.

Calling deaths from COVID-19 “almost entirely preventable,” the Montana Department of Health says coronavirus and COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in Montana last year. 2021 will be the second year in a row that COVID-19 is the third-ranked cause of death in Montana, following heart disease and cancer. Vaccines have been effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19. From April 1 to Oct. 22, those who were unvaccinated made up 84% of COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide and 76% of deaths.