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Health care workers reflect on one-year anniversary of Eagle County's first COVID-19 case


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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.” ....

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State of Vail Health address: Teacher vaccines available Feb. 8, restaurant workers March 5


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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. ....

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