{"id":805674,"date":"2020-03-25T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380946"},"modified":"2020-03-25T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:27:14","slug":"officials-despite-using-different-language-summit-county-already-has-a-stay-at-home-order-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/officials-despite-using-different-language-summit-county-already-has-a-stay-at-home-order-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Despite using different language, Summit County already has a stay-at-home order in place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured on Tuesday, March 17, various signs around Summit County, like the one at Frisco Cuts Barbershop, describe modifications to service to help the community remain safe and healthy amid the COVID-19 outbreak and comply with state health guidelines.<\/strong>
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DILLON \u2014 On Monday, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced a stay-at-home order, shutting down businesses across the city for the next two weeks. As more cities, counties and states continue to enact stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders \u2014 including Boulder, La Plata and Pitkin counties \u2014 Summit officials say county residents shouldn\u2019t expect to see tightening of restrictions in the local public health order anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Brian Bovaird, the county\u2019s emergency management director, said for all intents and purposes, Summit County already has issued its stay-at-home order.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting a lot of questions about shelter-in-place or stay-in-home orders,\u201d Bovaird said. \u201cIf you look at Denver, there isn\u2019t much difference in the order they\u2019re putting in place versus the public health order that we initiated back on the 16th of this month.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similar to Summit County\u2019s public health order, the new restrictions in Denver still allow residents to venture out for groceries, health care appointments, exercise and more. Restaurants are still allowed to offer takeout and delivery, liquor stores and dispensaries will remain open, and essential employees are still heading to work.<\/p>\n

Though, Bovaird noted that Summit\u2019s order is actually more restrictive in some ways, including shutting down guest lodging, public transportation and ride-sharing services, all of which are still operating in Denver.<\/p>\n

Given the county\u2019s limited resources to respond to a large-scale outbreak of the new coronavirus, Bovaird said moving swiftly to roll out restrictions was paramount in both protecting the public health and trying to minimize confusion among residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe model was there,\u201d Bovaird said. \u201cGiven our limited capacity in our hospital system, and because of our desire to do whatever we can to protect our community, we wanted all of those measures in place right away.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as the virus started to spread throughout Colorado, we were seeing a lot of reactionary orders being put in place and changing hourly. What we wanted to do is get our restrictions in place and keep them there so there wasn\u2019t additional confusion with things changing over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bovaird also said the choice to call the county\u2019s regulations a public health order in lieu of a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order was a deliberate one. A stay-at-home order wouldn\u2019t technically be accurate, with residents encouraged to leave their homes to exercise or to run essential errands.<\/p>\n

And shelter-in-place orders already carry an established meaning and protocols as part of the county\u2019s emergency alert system \u2014 including cutting off heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and closing windows as part of a hazmat response.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take the naming conventions of our public protective actions pretty seriously,\u201d Bovaird said.<\/p>\n

While there could always be new restrictions enacted at the state or federal levels, county officials say they\u2019re not considering any major changes locally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel like the measures we put in place last week are still the appropriate measures and account for everything the experts say we need to be doing to limit the spread,\u201d Bovaird said. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty proud of ourselves for taking the lead initially to give community members a sense of consistency.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pictured on Tuesday, March 17, various signs around Summit County, like the one at Frisco Cuts Barbershop, describe modifications to service to help the community remain safe and healthy amid the COVID-19 outbreak and comply with state health guidelines.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com DILLON \u2014 On Monday, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced a stay-at-home order, shutting […]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 08:56:18","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}