{"id":806853,"date":"2020-04-27T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382339"},"modified":"2020-04-27T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:30:00","slug":"summit-county-officials-outline-strategy-as-health-order-moves-into-next-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-officials-outline-strategy-as-health-order-moves-into-next-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County officials outline strategy as health order moves into next phase"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Physician’s assistant Stephanie Kuenn is pictured in personal protective gear before seeing potential COVID-19 patients at the Summit Community Care Clinic in Frisco on March 30.<\/strong>
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FRISCO \u2014 Recovering from a pandemic is a dance. With each new phase of recovery, there is potential to move backward.<\/p>\n

To maintain the balance required to open up, Summit County officials are moving forward cautiously, Public Health Director Amy Wineland said at Monday\u2019s recovery team town hall meeting. Wineland presented three phases moving forward: slow the spread, stabilization and long-term recovery.<\/p>\n

The slow-the-spread phase was the county\u2019s initial response to the virus. The county\u2019s goals were to give the health system time to increase its patient capacity as well as increase testing capacity, Wineland said. <\/p>\n

With its amended order<\/a>, the county is slowly moving into a stabilization phase. The criteria for the phase is a reduction in cases for at least 14 days, ensuring hospitals are able to treat everyone needing to be hospitalized and all people with COVID-19 symptoms can be tested. <\/p>\n

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