Montezuma County has had 269 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week, according to Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment data published Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Since the start of the pandemic, 19 Montezuma County residents have died because of COVID-19, and 59 have died with the virus in their system, according to CDPHE.<\/p>\n
The county\u2019s one-week positivity rate is 21.4%, according to CDPHE data.<\/p>\n
As of Jan. 11, Southwest Health System had transferred 82 patients to other hospitals for high levels of care since Nov. 15, and 15 of the cases were COVID-related.<\/p>\n
Of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Southwest Health System since June 2021, 72 patients were unvaccinated, 14 were vaccinated,and two were vaccinated and boosted.<\/p>\n\n
Of patients in the intensive care unit since June 2021, 32 were unvaccinated and two were vaccinated. No vaccinated and boosted patients required ICU treatment.<\/p>\n\n
Of COVID-19 infections among the 550 Southwest Health staff since June 2021, 29 staff were unvaccinated, 30 were vaccinated, and 12 were vaccinated and boosted.<\/p>\n\n
This equates to a 12% positivity rate among staff since last summer, Wright said, of which 83% were unboosted or unvaccinated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a high boosted rate at the moment,\u201d she said. \u201cI like to think that\u2019s going to be changing here shortly with numbers coming out.\u201d<\/p>\n
None of the positive cases among staff were traced back to in-house outbreaks, she clarified.<\/p>\n
In Colorado, fully vaccinated individuals are two times less likely to become infected with COVID-19, 11.8 times less likely to be hospitalized and 12.9 times less likely to die from the virus compared with unvaccinated individuals, according to CDPHE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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