{"id":65152,"date":"2020-03-24T04:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coronavirus-now-linked-to-at-least-9-deaths-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:15:14","slug":"coronavirus-now-linked-to-at-least-9-deaths-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/coronavirus-now-linked-to-at-least-9-deaths-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus now linked to at least 9 deaths in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=64b35b8c-d938-4630-8ea7-279047d17020&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"930\" alt=\"A worker at a coronavirus drive-up testing site in Montrose.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A worker at a coronavirus drive-up testing site in Montrose.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The new coronavirus has now been linked to at least nine deaths in Colorado as the outbreak of the disease rapidly worsens.<\/p>\n<p>An El Paso County man in his 80s was killed by COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, health officials announced on Monday night. And recent tests showed a Gunnison County man in his 50s who died earlier this month also had contracted coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe individual was tested for COVID-19 by the coroner\u2019s office after his passing a week and a half ago,\u201d Gunnison County Health and Human Services in a news release Monday. \u201cHealth and Human Services just received notice that the test did in fact come back positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El Paso County has seen at least four deaths from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Colorado is now well over 700 across 31 of Colorado\u2019s 64 counties. At least 72 people have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>About 6,200 people have been tested for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado health officials say there are likely thousands of people in the state who are infected with the virus but that they haven\u2019t been tested because of a lack of resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>showed a Gunnison County who died earlier this month had contracted coronavirus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,685],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-coronavirus-covid-19"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65152","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=65152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89859,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65152\/revisions\/89859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65152"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}