WYOMING — Fremont County, the hardest-hit county early in the pandemic, benefitted recently from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
Protective gear was donated to the Fremont County COVID-19 Response Team by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Nongame Program in an effort to distribute equipment to healthcare workers and others at risk.
Seven boxes of respirators (totaling 130 masks) and three boxes of nitrile gloves were dropped off at the Response Team headquarters in Riverton. Masks and gloves were leftover from small mammal trapping and black-footed ferret surveys. Biologists wear them as precautions for zoonotic diseases like hantavirus and plague.
Lander Together, in coordination with the Fremont County Incident Command Emergency Management Team, has organized a personal protective equipment (PPE) drive to keep local healthcare workers stocked. Donation bins are located in the breezeway between buildings at the Lander United Methodist Church (262 N. 3rd Street) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
