{"id":1320391,"date":"2020-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=997085"},"modified":"2020-06-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:00:00","slug":"four-workers-at-el-jebel-grocer-test-positive-for-covid-19-though-store-not-believed-to-be-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/four-workers-at-el-jebel-grocer-test-positive-for-covid-19-though-store-not-believed-to-be-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Four workers at El Jebel grocer test positive for COVID-19, though store not believed to be source"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/covidcases-atd-060820-1024x838.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/covidcases-atd-060820-1024x838.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/covidcases-atd-060820-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/covidcases-atd-060820-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/covidcases-atd-060820-1536x1257.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/covidcases-atd-060820-2048x1676.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Shippers line up outside the El Jebel City Market on March 15 as the pandemic unfolded, The store said Sunday that four associates tested postive for COVID-19 last week though the source isn&#8217;t believed to be the store.<\/strong><br \/><em>Aspen Times file<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Health departments in the Roaring Fork Valley are undertaking contact tracing after employees at the El Jebel City Market tested positive for COVID-19 last week, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAt this particular store we have four confirmed positives,\u201d City Market spokeswoman Jessica Trowbridge said Sunday night. She said the source of infection was not the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Eagle County Public Health Department did not identify the place of business because it is not deemed a public risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThere is not a public health concern at the location where these people worked,\u201d Eagle County Communications Director Kris Widlak said.<\/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 class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She said it is believed the employees became exposed to the coronavirus in gatherings outside of the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe place of employment was not the source,\u201d Widlak said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Trowbridge said City Market has an extensive protocol for preventing the spread of COVID-19. Employees wear facial coverings, Plexiglas is placed between cashiers and customers, there are limits to the number of customers in the store at one time, social distancing inside the store is encouraged and additional cleaning has been undertaken since the pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In addition to the enhanced cleaning by the company, it has hired a third-party vendor for additional cleaning at the El Jebel story since it learned of the positive cases, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That third party cleaned the El Jebel store on June 2, Saturday night and was headed back Sunday night, Trowbridge said Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">City Market learned that two of its associates tested positive on June 2. The other two employees tested positive sometime prior to that, though Trowbridge didn\u2019t have the exact date. She declined to name the departments where the employees work to adhere to medical privacy laws for those infected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">An undisclosed number of other employees who may have come into contact with those who tested positive are in quarantine, she said. The company\u2019s emergency leave policy provides them with up to two weeks of paid time off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">City Market believes the El Jebel grocery store is safe for employees and customers due to its protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cNothing is more important to us than the safety of our customers, employees and communities,\u201d Trowbridge said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While not naming City Market as the business where employees tested positive, Widlak said the place of employment was cooperating with health officials. Contact tracers with Eagle, Pitkin and Garfield counties are undertaking the arduous task of trying to track down consistent and casual contacts that the four employees have had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After months of social distancing, Memorial Day Weekend was marked by numerous high school graduation gatherings in the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A Facebook post on the Basalt Community Page on Sunday morning that said, \u201cCOVID-19 has been found in the El Jebel City Market\u201d captured widespread attention. Trowbridge said she saw the post and stressed that the health department has determined City Market is not the source of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:scondon@aspentimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scondon@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/four-workers-at-el-jebel-grocer-test-positive-for-covid-19-though-store-not-believed-to-be-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shippers line up outside the El Jebel City Market on March 15 as the pandemic unfolded, The store said Sunday that four associates tested postive for COVID-19 last week though the source isn&#8217;t believed to be the store.Aspen Times file Health departments in the Roaring Fork Valley are undertaking contact tracing after employees at the [&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-1320391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 13:24:04","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\/1320391","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=1320391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}