President Joe Biden may have declared the coronavirus pandemic "over," but from John Felton's view as the Yellowstone County health officer in Billings, Mont., it is not over, just different.
Now, more than ever, it is a plague of the elderly.
In October, Felton's team logged six deaths due to the virus, many of them among vaccinated people. Their ages: 80s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 90s. They included Betty Witzel, 88, described by her family as a tomboy who carried snakes in her pocket as a child and grew up to be a teacher, mother of four, grandmother of nine and great-grandmother of five. And there was Nadine Alice Stark, 85, a ranch owner who planted sugar beets and corn.
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