How COVID-19 is Shaping the West

We’re chatting with experts to help us understand how the spread of COVID-19 — and our response to it — will affect the West. This page will be updated with our latest coverage of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

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Could the Coronavirus Yield a More Robust Northwest Seafood Economy?

This Denver Group is Keeping Immigrants’ Restaurant Dreams Alive

As Cases Surge, Western Governors Navigate the Politics of COVID-19

Police Violence and the Pandemic: A Joint Crisis Roiling People of Color

Work or Stay Home? It’s a Matter of Survival

Antibody Tests Are Critical to Re-opening the West — If Used Correctly

Will the COVID-19 recovery favor trails and hotels, or oil and gas?

Can Michelle Lujan Grisham Save New Mexico?

COVID-19 is revealing the Interior Department’s priorities

Travel & Inequality Made Ski Towns COVID-19 Hot Spots

Hospitals shedding money amid COVID-19 outbreak

Farmworkers Are Deemed Essential, but Few Get Coronavirus Protections

A Historian on the Coronavirus: ‘Like the AIDS Crisis on Fast-Forward’

Can Las Vegas Survive the COVID-19 Outbreak?

A Street Medicine Expert on Keeping Homeless People Safe From COVID-19

Coronavirus Shutdowns Hit Hourly Workers the Hardest

Jake Bullinger is Bitterroot's editor in chief.