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A well-known ranking of healthiest counties showed Routt County dropped from fifth place in 2020 to 10th in 2021 and to 53rd in 2022 rankings of Colorado counties, with much of that decrease related to...
Though local COVID-19 infection rates are low right now, health officials warned Routt County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Dec. 21, that the omicron variant is likely already infecting people in the county and a…
Cases of COVID-19 have returned to levels not seen since the beginning of April, and positivity rates are at levels not seen since previous surges of the virus locally in February. In June, 87.5% of people 12 and older who tested positive for COVID-19 were not vaccinated, according to Routt County Public Health. “As is true throughout the U.S., right now, Routt County is seeing a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” said county epidemiologist Nicole Harty. There have been 77 new cases of the virus in the past two weeks, which puts the county in the caution metrics used on its Road to Recovery f...