{"id":22214,"date":"2020-04-02T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=64032"},"modified":"2020-04-02T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:41:49","slug":"county-officials-look-at-logistics-supplies-more-in-case-local-covid-19-cases-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/county-officials-look-at-logistics-supplies-more-in-case-local-covid-19-cases-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"County officials look at logistics, supplies, more in case local COVID-19 cases spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/VirusCounty-shn-040320-1-1024x634.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/VirusCounty-shn-040320-1-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/VirusCounty-shn-040320-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/VirusCounty-shn-040320-1-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/VirusCounty-shn-040320-1-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/04\/VirusCounty-shn-040320-1-2048x1268.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Brad White , incident commander for the Grand County COVID-19 Response Team, pauses for a moment Wednesday as team members work in the background at the team\u2019s emergency operations center in the Grand County Road and Bridge building in Fraser.<\/strong><br \/><em>McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>While the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases remains low in Grand County, local officials continue to prepare for a sudden spike of infections.<\/p>\n<p>During a Wednesday tour of the emergency operations center, a kind of headquarters for the county\u2019s COVID-19 response team, team leaders emphasized their primary mission: ensuring local health care providers can meet the demand in Grand County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the measures we\u2019re taking, we\u2019re trying to have a proactive approach,\u201d County Communications Coordinator Alexis Kimbrough said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to support that goal, Grand County issued a public health order prohibiting short-term rentals from operating for the next 30 days, except to house essential workers or isolate, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row shn-donation shn-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/02\/shn-logo-2x-wht.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kimbrough said the team came to the decision, which prohibits short-term rentals until April 30, based on modeling the spread in Grand County and the recent increase in visitors to the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is new for us too,\u201d she said of the global pandemic. \u201cWe\u2019re doing the best we can and making decisions based on what we feel is the best for the safety and health of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the county added a violation form to its website so people can report anyone who they think is violating the public health or executive orders. With the new form, team members are trying to cut down on the number of unnecessary calls to 911, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from making decisions about the county\u2019s response to the pandemic, the team is also coordinating with the county\u2019s various first responders, its towns, health care agencies, volunteers and chambers of commerce to try to ensure a cohesive response across the county.<\/p>\n<p>A logistics division of the team is responsible for sourcing necessary supplies from wherever they can find them and distributing those supplies to essential workers in the county. So far, they have collected gowns, masks and gloves for health care workers, local volunteer efforts and high-risk groups, as well as providing supplies and guidance to local businesses working on their own solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Team members charged with handling logistics are also working on securing space for an isolation care facility in case someone tests positive and needs medical care, as well as an alternate care facility for hospital patients who don\u2019t have COVID-19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both facilities would help relieve pressure on the main Middle Park Health hospital campuses, Incident Commander Brad White explained.<\/p>\n<p>Another resource the response team is working to provide is an online real-time symptom tracking database, so people can self-report how they feel and the county can utilize that information in its decision-making, according to County Manager Kate McIntire.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is these efforts will help reduce the spread as much as possible while maintaining the county\u2019s preparedness for a large number of cases, just in case.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the county reported there were four positive COVID-19 cases in Grand with a fifth case with close ties to the county.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, 59 coronavirus tests have been performed in Grand County with 53 of those tests coming back negative and four tests awaiting results. Two of the local cases were confirmed as probably positive without tests.<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, there have been more than&nbsp;3,300 COVID-19 cases with 80 deaths as of Wednesday night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/county-officials-look-at-logistics-supplies-more-in-case-local-covid-19-cases-spike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad White , incident commander for the Grand County COVID-19 Response Team, pauses for a moment Wednesday as team members work in the background at the team\u2019s emergency operations center in the Grand County Road and Bridge building in Fraser.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com While the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases remains low in Grand County, [&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-22214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 22:08:17","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\/22214","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=22214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22219,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214\/revisions\/22219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}