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Montana Town’s High COVID-19 Death Rate Is A Warning For Rural West

Army Sgt. Willy Nesmith from Cut Bank, Montana takes the temperature of Army Spc. Trevor Dodson as a part of daily personal wellness verification at the Amtrak Train Station in Shelby, Montana, April 3, 2020.
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Army Sgt. Willy Nesmith from Cut Bank, Montana takes the temperature of Army Spc. Trevor Dodson as a part of daily personal wellness verification at the Amtrak Train Station in Shelby, Montana, April 3, 2020.

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Nate Hegyi is a reporter with the Mountain West News Bureau based at Yellowstone Public Radio. He earned an M.A. in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism in 2016 and interned at NPR’s Morning Edition in 2014. In a prior life, he toured around the country in a band, lived in Texas for a spell, and once tried unsuccessfully to fly fish. You can reach Nate at nate@ypradio.org.