{"id":51296,"date":"2020-09-29T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sees-spike-in-covid-19-cases-since-labor-day\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T22:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:46:37","slug":"la-plata-county-sees-spike-in-covid-19-cases-since-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/la-plata-county-sees-spike-in-covid-19-cases-since-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plata County sees spike in COVID-19 cases since Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1c18cda3-52d3-4b74-8c36-589b6e599962&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>La Plata County has recorded nearly 20 new COVID-19 cases in the last week and a half, a mini surge that San Juan Basin Public Health attributes to the Labor Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Day, which occurred Sept. 7, tends to be a busy travel weekend, with both visitors coming to Southwest Colorado and residents making trips around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly two weeks after the holiday, new COVID-19 cases started popping up. During a five-day period, Sept. 21-25, there were 19 new cases compared with only five new cases in the preceding 14 days, Sept. 7-20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspected we might see a spike in cases a couple weeks after Labor Day, and this seems to be the situation,\u201d Claire Ninde, spokeswoman with SJBPH, wrote in an email to <em>The Durango Herald<\/em>. \u201cCases have been increasing in both resident and nonresident cases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>weekend blamed for increase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51297,"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-51296","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\/51296","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=51296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51296"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}