Health Department decides to release Covid-19 info on local dashboard

After a discussion on how to report locally confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Gallatin City-County Health Department announced last week they would not be using the statewide release of data.

According to Gallatin County Communications Coordinator Whitney Bermes, the department has been working through how to best deal with the discrepancies in case counts between our dashboard for Gallatin County and what the state's dashboard lists for Gallatin County.

"In the last day or so, we've gone back and forth about whether we just report state numbers to the public. But we have opted to continue the...