{"id":1319606,"date":"2020-04-23T17:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=995917"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:48:46","slug":"cautiously-optimistic-valley-view-ceo-garco-public-health-participate-in-glenwood-covid-19-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/cautiously-optimistic-valley-view-ceo-garco-public-health-participate-in-glenwood-covid-19-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cautiously optimistic:\u2019 Valley View CEO, GarCo Public Health participate in Glenwood COVID-19 webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/IMG_1846-1024x592.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/IMG_1846-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/IMG_1846-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/IMG_1846-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/IMG_1846-1536x887.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/IMG_1846.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>From left, Glenwood Mayor Jonathan Godes, Valley View Hospital CEO Dr. Brian Murphy and Garfield County Public Health Specialist Mason Hohstadt discuss the COVID-19 crisis at a webinar on Wednesday. Matthew Bennett\/Post Independent<\/strong><br \/><em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Wednesday, the city of Glenwood Springs hosted another COVID-19 webcast, which focused on the number of known cases locally and the critical need, still, for more testing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Garfield County Public Health Specialist Mason Hohstadt, 769 specimens have been tested for COVID-19 in Garfield County as of April 21.<\/p>\n<p>Of those specimens collected, 56 or 7.3% have come back positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hohstadt, over half of Garfield County\u2019s known COVID-19 cases have been between the ages of 30 and 60.<\/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>\u201cWe have more male cases than female cases at this point,\u201d Hohstadt said during Wednesday\u2019s webcast.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Hohstadt said of Garfield County\u2019s known cases, COVID-19 had not disproportionally impacted the Latinx communities.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jonathan Godes, who also participated in Wednesday\u2019s webinar, said that just because the state will transition from a stay-at-home order to a safer- at-home order on Monday, doesn\u2019t mean locally-imposed restrictions will disappear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t assume also that Garfield County and the municipalities will roll back everything in a uniform way,\u201d Godes said. \u201cWhat is good for the people in Parachute, and appropriate, might not be appropriate for the community that is Glenwood Springs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials have routinely said that a key component to restrictions gradually being lifted is testing availability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are new viral testing modalities that are getting FDA approval,\u201d Dr. Brian Murphy, Valley View Hospital CEO, said during Wednesday\u2019s webcast.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy said Valley View Hospital was aggressively pursuing a COVID-19 testing modality that relied on saliva instead of swabbing in an effort to ramp up community testing.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing a line graph illustrating the number of positive COVID-19 inpatients at Valley View Hospital between March 23 and April 20, Murphy pointed out a sequential decline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are cautiously optimistic that all of the efforts everybody has contributed are making an impact,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cI do believe, like the governor believes, that this is going to be a marathon, not a sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/cautiously-optimistic-valley-view-ceo-garco-public-health-participate-in-glenwood-covid-19-webinar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left, Glenwood Mayor Jonathan Godes, Valley View Hospital CEO Dr. Brian Murphy and Garfield County Public Health Specialist Mason Hohstadt discuss the COVID-19 crisis at a webinar on Wednesday. Matthew Bennett\/Post Independent Wednesday, the city of Glenwood Springs hosted another COVID-19 webcast, which focused on the number of known cases locally and the critical [&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":["post-1319606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 01:04:13","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\/1319606","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=1319606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}