{"id":21692,"date":"2020-03-03T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63530"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:33:17","slug":"colorado-lab-now-able-to-test-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/colorado-lab-now-able-to-test-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado lab now able to test for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/2019-coronavirus-1024x512.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/2019-coronavirus-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/2019-coronavirus-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/2019-coronavirus-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/2019-coronavirus.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The state laboratory at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is now equipped to test for cases of coronavirus, according to state officials.<\/p>\n<p>Before now, testing for COVID-19 had been conducted only by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With new capacities for testing at the state level, officials are hoping to be more nimble in responding to and controlling the disease if it is found in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>With current staffing and equipment resources, the state lab has the capacity to test as many as 160 samples per day with results coming back within 24 hours. The test will be used only for people who meet the criteria for COVID-19 testing and won\u2019t be available to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado, there are three circumstances where public health departments could determine that a patient needs to be tested:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If a person has a fever or signs of lower respiratory illness and has been in close contact with someone confirmed to have COVID-19 within 14 days of when symptoms started<\/li>\n<li>If a person has a fever and signs of lower respiratory illness and recently traveled to parts of the world with high infection rates within 14 days of noticeable symptoms<\/li>\n<li>If a person has a fever with severe lower respiratory illness that requires hospitalization and other diagnoses such as influenza have already been ruled out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If a medial provider believes their patient might have the illness, they\u2019ll make contact with a state or local public health department for further instructions on testing. If a person does need to be tested, the medical provider will collect a sample from the patient\u2019s nose and throat to be sent to the state lab.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado doesn\u2019t currently have any known cases of COVID-19. For more information, resident\u2019s can reach out to Colorado\u2019s novel coronavirus hotline at 303-389-1687 or 1-877-462-2911. Residents also can reach out to <a href=\"mailto:cohelp@RMPDC.org\">cohelp@RMPDC.org<\/a> or visit the state\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/cdphe\/2019-novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">public health web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/colorado-lab-now-able-to-test-for-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state laboratory at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is now equipped to test for cases of coronavirus, according to state officials. Before now, testing for COVID-19 had been conducted only by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With new capacities for testing at the state level, officials are hoping to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 22:15:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}