{"id":2456521,"date":"2020-03-30T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323527"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:55:42","slug":"colorado-sees-first-coronavirus-death-of-someone-under-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-sees-first-coronavirus-death-of-someone-under-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado sees first coronavirus death of someone under 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/TDP-L-GOV-POLIS-CORONA-PRESSER_AC34276x.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/TDP-L-GOV-POLIS-CORONA-PRESSER_AC34276x.jpg 782w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/TDP-L-GOV-POLIS-CORONA-PRESSER_AC34276x-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/TDP-L-GOV-POLIS-CORONA-PRESSER_AC34276x-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\"><figcaption><strong>Colorado Governor Jared Polis during his press conference updating the state&#8217;s response to the coronavirus outbreak at the Colorado State Emergency Operations Center March 27, 2020.<\/strong><br \/><em>Andy Cross\/The Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The first person under the age of 40 in Colorado has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, Gov. Jared Polis announced Monday during a mid-day press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain showing the severity of this virus for people of all ages,\u201d he said, before emphasizing that about 80% of COVID-19 of cases do not require hospitalization and will self-resolve.<\/p>\n<p>Polis announced new statewide numbers \u2014 a partial count, since full data is usually made public around 4 p.m. each day \u2014 and said 51 people now have died in Colorado from complications of the new coronavirus. There are now 2,627 total confirmed cases of the virus in 47 of Colorado\u2019s 64 counties, with 414 people having been hospitalized. A total of 15,364 people have now been tested.<\/p>\n<p>Polis said Monday that Colorado has started to see a positive impact from the closure of the state\u2019s bars and restaurants, a step taken March 16 that preceded the statewide stay-at-home order that started Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s numbers show that the spread of the virus \u2014 which had been doubling every two days \u2014 is now doubling every five days, Polis said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/03\/30\/colorado-coronavirus-death-under-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i> to read the full story from The Denver Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-sees-first-coronavirus-death-of-someone-under-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Governor Jared Polis during his press conference updating the state&#8217;s response to the coronavirus outbreak at the Colorado State Emergency Operations Center March 27, 2020.Andy Cross\/The Denver Post The first person under the age of 40 in Colorado has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, Gov. Jared Polis announced Monday during a mid-day press [&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-2456521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 06:57:27","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":"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\/2456521","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=2456521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}