{"id":48376,"date":"2021-02-25T01:40:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/outbreaks-and-covid-cases-drop-in-montezuma-county\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:42:39","slug":"outbreaks-and-covid-cases-drop-in-montezuma-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/outbreaks-and-covid-cases-drop-in-montezuma-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreaks and COVID cases drop in Montezuma County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=24dfe11e-f5b4-4d82-aa92-474fedc0d1cc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" alt=\"Dr. Ben Carelock, of Southwest Memorial Hospital, was one of the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Montezuma County.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dr. Ben Carelock, of Southwest Memorial Hospital, was one of the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Montezuma County.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Montezuma County did not report new COVID-19 outbreaks this week and more outbreaks have been resolved, according to data released Wednesday by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic started, 32 outbreaks have been reported in the county, according to state data. Eighteen are listed as active, and 14 have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Outbreaks recently resolved are:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">BeeHive Homes at the Cortez Homestead, resolved Jan. 25.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Vista Grande Inn nursing home, resolved Jan. 11.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Tiger by the Tail, resolved Jan. 5.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Vista Mesa Assisted Living, resolved Jan. 4.<\/em>On Feb. 24, the Montezuma County Public Health Department reported 183 active COVID-19 cases, down from 280 cases on Feb. 17, a 34% decrease.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 1,492 people who have recovered from the disease and 13 deaths caused by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>As of Feb. 23, 7,121 people in the county have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 1,959 had received the second dose.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine distribution is in Phase 1B.2, which includes Coloradoans ages 65-69, school teachers and child care workers in licensed programs.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a patient of Southwest Health System, visit this website to schedule a vaccination at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swhealth.org\/covid-19info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yxgo4avf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are not a patient of SHS, contact the county health department to schedule a vaccination at <a href=\"https:\/\/montezumacounty.org\/public-health\/covid-19-information-and-resources\/?fbclid=IwAR2m7kKFiHcV4IVGDRQklCwGOc5clzO4af0ILRpA2p06jlxJplLPH0mefm0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y2r54yv2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@the-journal.com\">jmimiaga@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34% decrease in cases in last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,13,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376","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=48376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87366,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376\/revisions\/87366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48376"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}