{"id":805817,"date":"2020-03-29T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381138"},"modified":"2020-03-29T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:38:49","slug":"summit-county-reports-14th-case-of-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-reports-14th-case-of-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County reports 14th case of COVID-19 virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-SDN-030820-2-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-SDN-030820-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-SDN-030820-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-SDN-030820-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-SDN-030820-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-SDN-030820-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A COVID-19 testing kit pictured at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco on March 6.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DILLON \u2014 As of Sunday, 14 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported in Summit County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 14th case was reported at 11 a.m. Sunday on the county\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/summitcountyco.gov\/1306\/Coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 website<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>. Health officials have stressed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/9-confirmed-cases-of-the-new-coronavirus-reported-in-summit-county\/\">this count is not indicative of the level of spread in the county<\/a> because limited testing is being conducted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Testing is being prioritized for first responders, health care providers and severely ill patients, making the number of official cases an underrepresentation of the true spread of the virus. County officials have said that in addition to the limited number of tests being conducted, there are \u201cbottlenecks\u201d of pending tests in both state and private laboratories. County officials also stated on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.summit.co.us\/1306\/Coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county\u2019s novel coronavirus webpage<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i> that information about individuals who test positive for the virus will no longer be released.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to better track the spread of the virus despite limited testing, the county has <a href=\"https:\/\/datastudio.google.com\/u\/0\/reporting\/1FZEuQfsBPdHjikFNL_NC-UHkfIDISrrs\/page\/UdJJB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a symptom tracker<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>. The tracker allows Summit County residents to anonymously report any symptoms they have had since March 1. The tracker is meant to \u201cprovide a more complete picture of disease activity\u201d in Summit County. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-launches-online-symptom-tracker-to-estimate-spread-of-coronavirus\/\">Since the tracker\u2019s release Friday<\/a>, there have been nearly 1,000 responses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-county-reports-14th-case-of-covid-19-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A COVID-19 testing kit pictured at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco on March 6.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com DILLON \u2014 As of Sunday, 14 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported in Summit County.&nbsp; The 14th case was reported at 11 a.m. Sunday on the county\u2019s COVID-19 website. Health officials have stressed [&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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 23:52:27","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\/805817","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=805817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}