The Aspen Times
A banner is changed above Main Street in Aspen on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
With the highest incidence rate of COVID-19 in Colorado, Pitkin County will close indoor dining at restaurants Sunday and move fully into Red-level restrictions.
Monday’s unanimous decision by the seven members of the Pitkin County Board of Health also includes a 50% capacity limit on lodging in Aspen and Snowmass Village and assurances by Aspen Skiing Co. to improve COVID-19 protocols.
Ski mountains will remain open without a reservation system for the time being, though indoor dining at on-mountain restaurants will cease.
A banner is changed above Main Street in Aspen on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
With the highest incidence rate of COVID-19 in Colorado, Pitkin County will close indoor dining at restaurants Sunday and move fully into Red-level restrictions.
Monday’s unanimous decision by the seven members of the Pitkin County Board of Health also includes assurances by Aspen Skiing Co. to improve COVID-19 protocols.
Ski mountains will remain open without a reservation system for the time being, though indoor dining at on-mountain restaurants will cease.
“We’ve communicated until our eyes are falling out,” said Pitkin County Commissioner Greg Poschman, also a member of the board of health. “Yet we still have a lot of people … not agreeing with us.
A 94-year-old Pitkin County man has died after contracting the coronavirus, county and hospital officials confirmed Friday.
The man, who has not been identified, died as a result of severe acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 pneumonia with several other secondary diagnoses, according to a report from county epidemiologist Josh Vance.
The man died Dec. 26, according to the report, and he is the fourth Pitkin County resident whose death is considered associated with COVID-19. How the man contracted the virus has not been released.
Aspen Valley Hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Slaughter said in an email Friday evening that the 94-year-old male was hospitalized “over the Christmas holiday, put on comfort measures, and died in the hospital from complications related to COVID-19.”
A 94-year-old Pitkin County man has died after contracting the coronavirus, county and hospital officials confirmed Friday.
The man, who has not been identified, died as a result of severe acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 pneumonia with several other secondary diagnoses, according to a report from county epidemiologist Josh Vance.
The man died Dec. 26, according to the report, and he is the fourth Pitkin County resident whose death is considered associated with COVID-19. How the man contracted the virus has not been released.
Aspen Valley Hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Slaughter said in an email Friday evening that the 94-year-old male was hospitalized “over the Christmas holiday, put on comfort measures, and died in the hospital from complications related to COVID-19.”
With one of the highest COVID-19 incidence rates in the state and the viral implications of Christmas and New Year’s festivities still to come, Pitkin County’s near-future prognosis appears forbidding.
“Most public health experts across the country are identifying January as the grimmest month of the pandemic,” Josh Vance, Pitkin County’s epidemiologist, said Tuesday. “There’s a lot of concern over Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s.
“The short-term picture for the next month is not too promising.”
Pitkin County’s COVID numbers for the period between Saturday to Tuesday are some of the worst of the pandemic, according to local epidemiology data