{"id":1319183,"date":"2020-03-30T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/garfield-county-surpasses-pitkin-co-in-confirmed-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T05:56:00","slug":"garfield-county-surpasses-pitkin-co-in-confirmed-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/garfield-county-surpasses-pitkin-co-in-confirmed-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Garfield County surpasses Pitkin Co. in confirmed COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Garfield County now has 31 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, overtaking Pitkin County in total number of cases, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pitkin County, one of the nearby hotspots early on in the pandemic, had 29 confirmed cases as of Monday. Pitkin still has a higher per-capita rate of confirmed cases than Garfield County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">To date, only one person has died after testing positive for COVID-19 in Garfield County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Due to the limited availability of testing, not every potential case of COVID-19 will be tested, so the number of actual cases is likely higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Across Colorado, 414 people had been hospitalized Monday, and there have been 51 deaths in the state attributed to COVID-19 since the outbreak began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Those figures were not broken down by county.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/garfield-county-surpasses-pitkin-co-in-confirmed-covid-19-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garfield County now has 31 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, overtaking Pitkin County in total number of cases, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Pitkin County, one of the nearby hotspots early on in the pandemic, had 29 confirmed cases as of Monday. Pitkin still has a higher per-capita rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 08:08:50","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}