But the overall number of people hospitalized with the virus at CRMC has declined markedly from about a month ago when 57 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus.
Chapman said federal statistics show that people who are vaccinated are ten times less likely to die or become seriously ill from the virus, and five times less likely to become infected at all.
On its Facebook page on Thursday, the department published a CDC graphic showing the ratio of COVID infections between unvaccinated and vaccinated people in the United States is 17:1.
Both the Cheyenne Animal Shelter and Cheyenne Family YMCA were recently closed because of the virus.
Yesterday Laramie County Sheriff's Department announced that it was reviving a mask mandate for visitors.