{"id":47391,"date":"2021-04-14T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sees-surge-of-new-covid-19-outbreaks\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:22:20","slug":"la-plata-county-sees-surge-of-new-covid-19-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sees-surge-of-new-covid-19-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata County sees surge of new COVID-19 outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b3335672-d29e-413a-9248-78579d0d36af&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"697\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A rash of COVID-19 outbreaks in La Plata County were reported this week, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>Every Wednesday, CDPHE updates its list of outbreaks statewide. An outbreak is defined as two or more cases, transmitted within a single place, in a 14-day period.<\/p>\n<p>New outbreaks this week include:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Cole\u2019s Chop Shop, an auto repair store in Durango, where an outbreak was confirmed April 6 after three staff members tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Durango North Head Start, a child care center, where an outbreak was confirmed April 13 after one staff member and one attendee tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Durango Plaster and Drywall, where an outbreak was confirmed March 30 after three staff members tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The Fort Lewis College football team, where an outbreak was confirmed April 13 after four players tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Grassburger, a hamburger shop, where an outbreak was confirmed April 1 after two staff members tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Healthy Hounds and Fat Cats, where an outbreak was confirmed April 6 after four staff members tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Riverhouse Children\u2019s Center, where an outbreak was confirmed April 9 after one staff member and one attendee tested positive.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">A social gathering in March, which led to four people testing positive. The outbreak was confirmed April 6.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Another social gathering in March that led to 10 people testing positive. That outbreak was also confirmed April 6.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Southwest Eye Consultants, where an outbreak was confirmed April 13 after four staff members tested positive.<\/em>Previously reported, but still active outbreaks include: Bayfield High School, the city of Durango\u2019s Wastewater\/Maintenance department, Durango High School, Needham Elementary School and Park Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>department releases updated list every Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,28,29,668],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47391"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}