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Matt Volz

  • Firefighters wear face masks at a morning briefing on the Bighorn Fire, north of Tucson, Arizona, on June 22, 2020. COVID-prevention protocols — based on guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — are recommended for wildfire camps. (U.S. Forest Service)
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    COVID Plans Put to Test as Firefighters Crowd Camps for Peak Wildfire Season
    Matt Volz
    HELENA, Mont. — Jon Paul was leery entering his first wildfire camp of the year late last month to fight three lightning caused fires scorching parts of a Northern California forest that hadn’t burned in 40 years.
  • A nurse in a green gown holds a long swab in a white car door
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    As Long Waits for Results Render COVID Tests ‘Useless,’ States Seek Workarounds
    Matt Volz
    HELENA, Montana — States frustrated by private laboratories’ increasingly long turnarounds for COVID-19 test results are scrambling to find ways to salvage their testing programs.Montana said Wednesday that it is dropping Quest Diagnostics, one of the nation’s largest diagnostic testing companies. The Secaucus, New Jersey-based company had done all the state’s surveillance COVID-19 testing — drive-thru testing that moves from community to community to help track COVID’s spread. But it told state officials last week that it was at capacity and would be unable to accommodate more tests for two or three weeks.