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A new report from the Wyoming Women's Foundation shows that women filed a disproportionate number of unemployment claims, while single mothers were more likely than other parents to fear paying rent or affording food.

If you have risk factors, you will want to check the Air Quality Index (AQI), and avoid going out if levels are over 100. For everyone else, limit activity over 150, and avoid exercising outdoors at levels over 200.

Those living with compromised immune systems are facing a double whammy with the region's low vaccination rates and the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine may not offer them the same protection as their peers.

Advocates and social scientists say the extra money will help low and middle-income families recover from the economic impacts wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic and lift millions out of poverty.

The WYO Rodeo in Sheridan will soon be underway, and officials are not planning for coronavirus-related restrictions.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney introduced the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021 with Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell. The bill is designed to keep telehealth accessible and easy for providers and their patients.

Hormones play an important role in mammalian reproduction. So when something goes wrong with them, a lot of other things can go wrong too. A University of Wyoming researcher is trying to figure out exactly what role misregulation of the hormones estrogen and progesterone play in female reproductive diseases like endometriosis, which affects one in ten women.

Indigenous Americans have suffered the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths, according to data from the CDC. But even those numbers could be an undercount.

"It feels exciting because a year ago today, we didn't even have a vaccine. And now, I'm just getting closer to the second dose day by day and I won't have to live in constant fear of catching the virus or spreading it to my family."

Nationally, the CDC estimates we lost around 92,000 Americans to overdoses in the past year, far more than ever before. The pandemic exacerbated mental health challenges and isolation, so that may be part of the reason: but so is the spread of synthetic opioids like fentanyl.