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We continue to operate in the blue level of the county’s coronameter. Public health measures like masks and social distancing got us to this point and will keep us open. They continue to be required.

Tomorrow the state of Colorado will be announcing a Matrix Dial that is based off our Coronometer.

Incident Command, the Call Center, and the Screening Site will be observing the Labor Day Holiday and taking the day off on 9/7/2020.

Tomorrow, 9/1/20, Public Health Nurses will be at the Gunnison Watershed School District Schools to answer any parent questions that might come up.

Currently, in the seven-day period from Aug. 19-Aug. 25, we have had only one day with three or more positive tests. In the 14-day period from Aug. 12-Aug. 25, positivity sits at 6.63% with a total of 13 positive results.

In the 14-day period from Aug. 7-Aug. 20, positivity sits at 6.12% with a total of 12 positive results.

We have had five positive tests come in since Monday. Of those, two are household contacts. Overall, we have seen 225 positive tests so far with 1,585 negative tests.

Although we are awaiting three tests on August 14th, currently in the seven-day period from Aug. 10-Aug. 16, we have had only one day with three or more positive tests. In the 14-day period from Aug. 3-Aug. 16, positivity has continued to decrease and is now at 7.04%.

We have seen great improvement in the turnaround of test results. As of this update, we have one pending result from Monday and one pending result from Tuesday. All the other pending results are from today and yesterday.

It appears that the diligence within the community has begun to turn the tide of the uptick that we saw after the 4th of July. We now are only meeting one indicator that would move us to yellow.