A Montana County Is So Swamped by COVID They’ve Run Out of Teachers, Hospital Beds

For seven emergency response physicians associated with the Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton, Montana, the rapid spike of coronavirus cases in the state has them at their breaking point.The 80-year-old hospital system, named after one of the three “Copper Kings” of Butte, has seen the number of total infections double in the last few weeks—and the pandemic is slated to only get worse as winter looms.In the last week alone, three residents in Ravalli County—where