{"id":2450369,"date":"2019-10-25T15:29:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=315053"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:29:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:29:30","slug":"colorado-investigating-its-first-potential-vaping-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-investigating-its-first-potential-vaping-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado investigating its first potential vaping death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/AP19270614655559.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado health authorities have started an investigation into what could be the first vaping-related death in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/10\/24\/colorado-vaping-related-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class>reported<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday that the Colorado Department of Health is expecting autopsy results to take at least six weeks for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the man who died was an 18-year-old Denver resident.<\/p>\n<p>The state has confirmed 11 cases of the vaping-related illness, and nine people have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Centers for Disease Control confirmed more than 1,600 cases of vaping-related illness nationwide, including at least 34 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say most people who got sick used vaping products containing THC.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado regulators say attempts have been made to ban certain additives in THC vaping products since the outbreak began in March.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of illness has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: The Denver Post,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class>http:\/\/www.denverpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-investigating-its-first-potential-vaping-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado health authorities have started an investigation into what could be the first vaping-related death in the state. The Denver Post&nbsp;reported&nbsp;Thursday that the Colorado Department of Health is expecting autopsy results to take at least six weeks for confirmation. Authorities say the man who died was an 18-year-old Denver resident. The state has [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 11:43:58","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}