{"id":1320050,"date":"2020-05-17T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=478108"},"modified":"2020-05-17T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T22:22:42","slug":"eagle-county-boasts-lowest-covid-19-fatality-rate-in-nation-at-less-than-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/eagle-county-boasts-lowest-covid-19-fatality-rate-in-nation-at-less-than-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle County boasts lowest COVID-19 fatality rate in nation at less than .15%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Friday, Colorado began reporting COVID-19 deaths by both the number of deaths among people with COVID-19 and the number of deaths among people who died from COVID-19.<\/strong>
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis called for<\/a> a moment of silence on Friday as the state mourned the more than 1,000 people who died with COVID-19 in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Eight of those deaths came from Eagle County, where the case fatality rates are currently the lowest in the nation at less than .15 percent.<\/p>\n

Vail Health estimates 6,300 people or 11.5 percent of the population has had COVID-19 in Eagle County based on a sample size of the 3,400 people who have received antibody tests. That is the largest sample size of anywhere in the country, said Chris Lindley with Vail Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel very confident that the underlying presence in our community of individuals with antibodies is 11.5 percent, and that number is not going to change,\u201d Lindley said last week. \u201cI guarantee you if we test another 1,000 people, it will be within another plus or minus one percent of that. This is a very, very large sample size, we have extreme confidence in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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