{"id":1319335,"date":"2020-04-07T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=995381"},"modified":"2020-04-07T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:26:45","slug":"covid-19-hospitalizations-tick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/covid-19-hospitalizations-tick-up\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 hospitalizations tick up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"45.549624687239\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/CDC-COVID-19-kit-1024x686.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/CDC-COVID-19-kit-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/CDC-COVID-19-kit-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/CDC-COVID-19-kit-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/CDC-COVID-19-kit-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/CDC-COVID-19-kit.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>This undated file photo provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows CDC&#8217;s laboratory test kit for the new coronavirus.<\/strong><br \/><em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Valley View Hospital reported Tuesday that they have treated a total of 14 cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak began, up from 11 last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how many patients are being treated for COVID-19 at Valley View currently.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital does not release information about how many people have recovered from the disease but previously said some patients treated for the coronavirus have gone home.<\/p>\n<p>Both Valley View and Grand River Hospital continue collecting specimens to be tested. Other healthcare providers also conduct sample collections, which are sent to labs outside of Garfield County.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/pi-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.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>Since the previous update April 2, Valley View has collected 42 more tests, with three new positive results. Grand River collected 31 new tests in the same time period with one new positive result.<\/p>\n<p>Several tests from each hospital are still pending.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone who expresses symptoms will be tested due to the availability of tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith limited testing resources, specimens are collected from only hospitalized and\/or high-risk patients with a physician referral,\u201d Valley View said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Those with the greatest risk for severe disease, complications and death, are considered high risk.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 6, there were 48 positive cases of COVID-19 in Garfield County according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. One person has died as a result of the disease in the county so far.<\/p>\n<p>Valley View and Grand River hospitals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/garfield-county-hospitals-release-covid-19-treatment-data\/\">began releasing data on hospitalizations<\/a> and local testing April 2, and plan to continue releasing information twice per week.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:tphippen@postindependent.com\">tphippen@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.375899280576\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 gspi-4 pl-4\" readability=\"17.804701627486\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p>Readers around Glenwood Springs and Garfield County make the Post Independent\u2019s work possible. 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It\u2019s unclear how many patients are being treated [&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-1319335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 13:30:31","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\/1319335","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=1319335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}