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Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine wait to be filled into syringes during a vaccination clinic at Vail Health Hospital in March. There are more “breakthrough” cases of COVID-19 among the vaccinated due to the delta variant of the virus. Health officials say getting the vaccine to more unvaccinated people can help tamp down the outbreak. Chris Dillmann/[email protected] Here’s some unfortunate news: You can be vaccinated against COVID-19 and still contract the virus. Thanks, delta variant. . Hospitalizations and deaths are also lower than they were a year ago. Confirmed cases in Eagle County were nearly flat in late May and early June, but have slowed ticked up in July ....
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Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post Eagle’s County’s first confirmed COVID-19 case arrived exactly 12 months ago on March 6, just one day after Colorado’s first case was discovered in neighboring Summit County. But it’s clear that the virus was here and spreading much earlier than that, based on extensive interviews with health care workers and officials from Vail Health and Colorado Mountain Medical. “We had COVID in this community in February. We had COVID all over the United States in February. We just didn’t have the ability to identify it,” said Chris Lindley, the chief population health officer for Vail Health who has spearheaded the hospital’s COVID-19 response since the start. “The testing was not in place until March to identify a case at all in the country, let alone in this valley. And so once we started looking for COVID in early March, we found it right away.” ....
Chris Dillmann/[email protected] VAIL The opening of a large new space, along with early anticipation of the coronavirus threat, made Vail Health able to stay well within its limit of hospital beds during the 2020 pandemic. And while hospitalizations are dropping, the virus is here to stay, and the hospital will need to continue to stay focused on vaccine distribution for many years to come. Those are few of several broad messages communicated to the public Tuesday from CEO Will Cook during the hospital’s State of Vail Health address. The annual event was held virtually this year, and the hospital addressed a few questions from the community via Zoom. Cook was joined by Vail Health Chief Population Health Officer Chris Lindley. ....
Special to the Daily After weeks of continuing increases in local COVID-19 cases, Eagle County disease levels appear to be flattening, albeit at a high level. “Generally speaking, people seem to be minimizing their social contacts and taking precautions that seem to be working,” said Eagle County Emergency Management Director Birch Barron in a Tuesday interview. There were 410 new Eagle County COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks. That is down from 487 new two-week cases last week and 491 two-week cases reported Dec. 8. While the number is headed downward, the county remains in the red level of the state’s COVID-19 risk meter for that metric. ....