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Since 3/22, volunteers have covered 485 shifts comprising 2,477 hours. Our volunteer database is now 570 volunteers deep. Kudos for stepping up to take care of each other.

There has been tremendous community support for the healthcare and emergency management teams. Let us not forget the sacrifice that others are making to keep us fed, our lights on, and our water running.

Gunnison County’s department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, April 7th announced its second death from the coronavirus (COVID-19).

We have come together as a community and we have seen the positive impacts of our adherence to the strict Public Health Orders. Thus far, we have been able to manage the impacts on the hospital. Although some data shows that we might be past our initial surge on the hospital, we cannot relax restrictions now. If we don’t remain vigilant, we could end up with a new even larger surge on our healthcare system. The impact on surrounding tertiary medical centers continues to ramp up. With no ICU beds locally, we cannot risk another surge. We may need to transfer individuals out but may not be able to because of limited availability at other hospitals.

Staff at Incident Command will be taking a day of rest on Sunday. We will have a skeleton crew in place in case there is pressing information that needs to be pushed to the public.

Since Gunnison County’s Fifth Amended Public Health Order was signed and issued Friday, April 3, some confusion has emerged concerning non-essential services, travel, activities or sales of goods.

On 4/03/2020 Joni Reynolds, Public Health Director, signed a 5th Amended Public Health Order. This pushes the sunset date to 4/30/2020 as well as clarifies restrictions on non-residents and those who have recently traveled.

In an effort to open up some time for other tasks, we will be moving to a once per day update at 5:00 PM Monday-Saturday. We will however send out any “breaking news” as needed.

Please self-report if you have any symptoms and encourage others to self-report so we can have the best information. We are using this data to help us track the virus through our community and to predict a potential surge on our healthcare system.

If you are at risk and self-isolating at home, ill with Covid-19 symptoms, or quarantined and need groceries or prescriptions delivered to your home; call (970) 641-7959.