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Boulder County reports 298 new coronavirus cases as hospitalizations keep climbing

Daily Times-Call - 11/21/2020

Nov. 21--As Boulder County stretched into its fourth consecutive day of record hospitalizations and switched to Level Red restrictions on Friday, 298 new coronavirus cases were reported, but there were no new deaths.

The county is also working to monitor progress at a halfway house in Boulder where an outbreak was determined last week.

To date, Boulder County Public Health reported 9,660 positive or probable cases. The death toll remained at 112. On Friday, the number currently hospitalized climbed to 104, a new record after Thursday's 102. There have been 314 people hospitalized since the virus appeared in the county. The county also reported that there have been 850.7 new cases per 100,000 people in the last two weeks.

Chana Goussetis, spokesperson for Boulder County Public Health said that The Intervention Community Corrections Services Boulder facility at 1770 21st St. promptly reported its outbreak to public health.

"We are working with the facility for the duration of the outbreak to monitor progress and to implement infection prevention and control measures to ensure prompt case identification, isolation, and quarantine for all staff and residents," Goussetis said.

The outbreak was determined Nov. 13. State data shows that there are seven probable cases and six positive cases, including three staff and three residents.

Boulder County Community Services' Monica Rotner, division manager with Community Justice Services, said that four staff members and eight residents tested positive. She said on Oct. 27, a resident experienced the "first onset of illness." A staff member most recently became ill on Nov. 13. Rotner said the facility is conduction weekly testing of staff and residents.

Rotner said clients who tested positive were moved to designated isolation rooms.

The University of Colorado Boulder reported on its online dashboard that the 16 positive tests were taken out of 510 diagnostic tests performed Thursday. There were also 1,197 monitoring tests taken. The campus has 4% or 19 isolation spaces in use. Since the start of the semester Aug. 24, CU Boulder has reported 1,539 positive tests. In total, the campus has conducted 11,147 diagnostic tests and 60,130 monitoring tests.

Boulder Valley School District reported on its online dashboard that there are 41 active cases, nine symptomatic cases, pending test results and 10 probable cases.

St. Vrain Valley School District has 102 active cases, 72 of those are students and 30 are staff, according to the district's online dashboard. The district has seen a cumulative 384 cases, with 285 of those cases students and 99 staff, the dashboard shows.

Statewide, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported that there have been 188,566 cases. There have been 2,745 deaths among cases and of those, 2,355 deaths due to COVID-19. There have been 12,166 people hospitalized. Of Colorado's roughly 5.7 million population, 1,563,738 people have been tested.

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Boulder Valley active cases

BVSD elementary schools

-- Coal Creek: 1

-- Columbine: 3

-- Community Montessori: 3

-- Douglass: 2

-- Eldorado: 2

-- Foothill: 1

-- Horizons: 2

-- Pioneer: 1

-- Ryan: 1

-- Superior: 1

-- University Hill: 2

BVSD middle schools

-- Angevine: 1

-- Broomfield Heights: 1

-- Casey: 3

-- Platt: 1

-- Southern Hills: 1

BVSD high schools

-- Boulder: 3

-- Broomfield: 3

-- Centaurus: 2

-- Fairview: 2

-- Monarch: 1

-- New Vista: 1

Other locations: Lafayette Transportation Terminal, 2; Ed Center, 1

St. Vrain Valley active cases

SVVSD elementary schools:

-- Alpine: 2

-- Black Rock: 1

-- Blue Mountain: 3

-- Burlington: 1

-- Centennial: 1

-- Columbine: 1

-- Erie: 1

-- Fall River: 2

-- Grand View: 2

-- Hygiene: 1

-- Indian Peaks: 1

-- Longmont Estates: 1

-- Lyons: 2

-- Mead: 3

-- Mountain View: 1

-- Northridge: 2

-- Prairie Ridge: 1

-- Rocky Mountain: 4

-- Sanborn: 1

SVVSD middle schools:

-- Altona: 3

-- Coal Ridge: 2

-- Erie: 1

-- Longs Peak: 2

-- Lyons Middle Senior: 1

-- Sunset: 1

-- Trail Ridge: 1

-- Westview: 1

SVVSD high schools

-- Frederick: 3

-- Longmont: 5

-- Mead: 8

-- Niwot: 7

-- Silver Creek: 5

-- Skyline: 8

Other campuses:

-- LaunchED Virtual Academy: 5

-- Main Street School: 4

-- Soaring Heights PK-8: 2

-- Thunder Valley PK-8: 2

-- Timberline PK-8: 1

-- Central Administration: 6

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