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Catherine Bernard, Aspen Valley Hospital’s chief of medical staff, remembers how that week played out in the emergency department.
“We were frightened,” she said. “Despite our training and our systems, the frontline workers were scared.”
With precautions and adaptations, they were able to overcome that initial fear. Time and experience made the situation a bit more manageable.
“It was a jump into the very cold deep end,” Bernard said. “It felt like in March, we saw very sick patients. I specifically saw very sick patients – some of them much older than me, and some of them even colleagues. That really brings it home and makes it very frightening.”
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UPDATED 7 p.m. Friday: A judge denied the request from the Pitkin County Restaurant Alliance, meaning the indoor dining ban will go into effect on Sunday as originally planned.
A group of Pitkin County restaurant owners are trying to block tighter restrictions set by the county’s Board of Health that would ban indoor dining. Court papers filed Thursday evening in Pitkin County District Court challenge that ban, set to take effect on Sunday, Jan. 17.
The Pitkin County Restaurant Alliance was formed in the wake of the county’s Jan. 12 decision to roll back indoor dining as part of “red” level restrictions. The alliance’s lawsuit names Pitkin County, the county health department and Board of Health, and Pitkin County’s interim health director as defendants, and seeks a temporary restraining order against the indoor dining ban.
A group of Pitkin County restaurant owners are trying to block tighter restrictions set by the county’s Board of Health that would ban indoor dining. Court