Wilson defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, NBC News projects, after a campaign in which President Donald Trump initially endorsed Evette and then backed Wilson, too.
One defendant was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison over the shooting outside a detention center near Dallas, Texas, that wounded a police officer.
The decline over the last 12 months stems in part from the Trump administration’s Medicaid cuts and the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Because contact tracing remains a major challenge, officials say that there could be many cases they don’t know about and that the peak of the outbreak is still ahead.