{"id":1319827,"date":"2020-05-07T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=996263"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:34:26","slug":"covid-19-testing-continues-to-increase-at-garfield-county-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/covid-19-testing-continues-to-increase-at-garfield-county-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 testing continues to increase at Garfield County hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/GarCo-age-gender-stats.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/GarCo-age-gender-stats.jpg 576w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/GarCo-age-gender-stats-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As Garfield County\u2019s two hospitals are able to collect more specimens for COVID-19 testing, the number of pending test results is mounting.<\/p>\n<p>So far, though, there hasn\u2019t been a significant increase in the number of new cases, as the county was reporting a total of 106 cases per the latest tally.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs had 120 pending test results out of 928 specimens collected since early March and sent off to the state lab for testing.<\/p>\n<p>Since Tuesday, the hospital had collected an additional 94 specimens from patients who were considered at high risk or based on physician referrals, according to Valley View\u2019s bi-weekly COVID-19 statistical report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\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\">\n<p><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\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grand River Hospital in Rifle had 21 results pending as of Thursday, and has tested a total of 595 patients. Grand River had collected an additional 42 specimens since its Tuesday report.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 46 tests have come back positive at Valley View, and 21 at Grand River. The remainder of the confirmed cases in the county have been from tests conducted at private labs.<\/p>\n<p>County and statewide totals also include probable cases, where a person is experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 and has had exposure to someone who has tested positive, but has not been tested themselves, according to public health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Through Wednesday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment was reporting a total of 18,371 cases statewide, resulting in 3,557 hospitalizations since the outbreak began and 944 deaths. Garfield County has reported two deaths, but none since April 9.<\/p>\n<p>Garfield County Public Health\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garfield-county.com\/public-health\/garfield-county-covid-19-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 web page<\/a> includes other statistical data for the county, including a distribution of confirmed or probable cases by town. To date 31.7% of cases have been in the Glenwood Springs area, 23.1% in New Castle, 20.2% in Carbondale, 11.5% in Rifle, 8.7% in Silt and 4.8% in Parachute\/Battlement Mesa.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:jstroud@postindependent.com\">jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/covid-19-testing-continues-to-increase-at-garfield-county-hospitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Garfield County\u2019s two hospitals are able to collect more specimens for COVID-19 testing, the number of pending test results is mounting. So far, though, there hasn\u2019t been a significant increase in the number of new cases, as the county was reporting a total of 106 cases per the latest tally. As of Thursday, Valley [&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-1319827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 23:30:30","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\/1319827","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=1319827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}