{"id":2455819,"date":"2020-03-15T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322696"},"modified":"2020-03-15T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:00:00","slug":"aspen-woman-with-covid-19-recovering-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-woman-with-covid-19-recovering-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen woman with COVID-19 recovering at home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A healthcare provider prepares to label a vial at the coronavirus testing location located at the Aspen Volunteer Fire Department\u2019s Aspen Village Location on Thursday, March 12, 2020.<\/strong>
Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

An Aspen woman who learned she tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday is recuperating at home and is starting to feel better after almost a week of experiencing symptoms.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old got swabbed Wednesday at the Aspen Village fire station<\/a>testing location. She was notified by a Pitkin County public health official in a phone call Saturday, her husband said Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was upset,\u201d he said. \u201cOf all the people who got tested, she came back positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t feeling well enough Sunday afternoon to talk directly with The Aspen Times, so her husband explained their experience on her behalf.<\/p>\n

The patient, who asked to remain anonymous to maintain her privacy, began experiencing fatigue, a fever and cough, back aches and a headache March 8.<\/p>\n

She is the first local person to test positive for COVID-19 outside of the 10 Australians<\/a> who tested positive earlier this month.<\/p>\n

They are in self-isolation and will be tested again this week to see if they are free from the disease and allowed to leave.<\/p>\n

The local woman went to Aspen Valley Hospital on Sunday, after experiencing what her husband described as a weight on her chest.<\/p>\n

AVH health care officials, who were wearing protective gear, had her enter the hospital through a back entrance to keep her apart from other workers and patients.<\/p>\n

X-ray and oxygen tests were normal and she is starting to feel better, her husband said.<\/p>\n

He, along with one of their children, are in quarantine at their Aspen home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re riding it out,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything is progressing the way we want it to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The husband said he experienced symptoms last week, mostly upper back aches, but they\u2019ve subsided.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve probably already got it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The couple thinks that she might have picked up the disease<\/a> while dining with a 34-year-old woman at a local restaurant March 4 when they shared a dessert.<\/p>\n

That woman, who is now in Oregon, came down with flu symptoms after that dinner. The husband said she tried to get tested in Oregon but was denied.<\/p>\n

The local patient did travel to Atlanta on March 1, her husband said. They\u2019ll be in quarantine and isolation until at least March 21.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll need to take two consecutive tests 24 hours apart that show they are free from the new coronavirus before they will be allowed to go back into the community.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, they\u2019ll stay inside watching TV and keep communicating with the county\u2019s public health officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cPitkin County has been on top of it from our perspective,\u201d the husband said. \u201cWe are watching Netflix and \u2018Our Planet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitkin County Public Health Director Karen Koenemann said last week that protecting people\u2019s privacy is paramount as more local cases occur.<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually as we see community spread we need to be thoughtful and compassionate. \u2026 The people who are testing positive are people that are visitors of our community or they could be our neighbors, friends and family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

csackariason@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A healthcare provider prepares to label a vial at the coronavirus testing location located at the Aspen Volunteer Fire Department\u2019s Aspen Village Location on Thursday, March 12, 2020.Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times An Aspen woman who learned she tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday is recuperating at home and is starting to feel better after almost […]<\/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-2455819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 10:27:47","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'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\/2455819","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=2455819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}