I could put this story in my COVID-19 sports coverage section since it focuses on a high school athletic director, but it has nothing to do with sports. It’s about four family members on a Montana Indian reservation who got COVID-19. They all recovered, but as I detail in the piece, “recovery” is a relative term.

“I was like, ‘Well, if this happens to go the bad way, I’m going to be at peace with it because I really miss my brother and I really miss my son,’ ” said August “Tiger” Scalpcane, the aforementioned AD who nearly died from COVID-19.

‘This could go either way’: After COVID-19 scare, Lame Deer’s Scalpcane family still recovering