{"id":807124,"date":"2020-05-05T14:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382753"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:06:03","slug":"7-new-cases-of-coronavirus-reported-as-vail-health-closes-testing-clinic-in-summit-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/7-new-cases-of-coronavirus-reported-as-vail-health-closes-testing-clinic-in-summit-county\/","title":{"rendered":"7 new cases of coronavirus reported as Vail Health closes testing clinic in Summit County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taylor Griffith, a paramedic for Stadium Medical, tests a patient for coronavirus at a mobile testing site in Dillon Valley on Wednesday, April 29. The Summit County Public Health Department has increased the amount of available testing throughout the county.<\/strong>
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Seven people tested positive for the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of positive cases in Summit County to 166, according to the county\u2019s coronavirus webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n

Also Tuesday, Vail Health CEO Will Cook announced the Eagle County hospital will no longer provide testing at the Howard Head Sports Medicine clinic in Silverthorne because the county no longer needs as much testing help from Vail Health.<\/p>\n

Summit County Assistant Manager Sarah Vaine confirmed that, saying the number of appointments at the clinic have dropped.<\/p>\n

Vail Health started providing testing in Summit County on April 21 after county officials asked the hospital for help. A total of 924 people have been tested since early March. The Vail Health clinic tested 275 of those people who were experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.<\/p>\n

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