Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment graphic showing virus cases in state counties as of March 28.
Chaffee County Public Health Director Andrea Carlstrom has announced the county has its twelfth positive case of COVID-19, along with two probable positive cases who have not been tested but who came into contact with a positive case and are now symptomatic as of Sunday morning.
There has been one death of a Chaffee County resident due to COVID-19, an 83-year-old man, at the time of this report.
Chaffee County Public Health is investigating these cases, as appropriate, Carlstrom said, and issuing letters with isolation requirements, as well as obtaining a timeline and list of people and places the positive cases have come into contact with.
The gender/age of the known cases are as follows:
22 year old male
38 year old male
43 year old male
46 year old male
57 year old female – probable, not tested
59 year old male – probable, not tested
61 year old female
67 year old male
68 year old male
69 year old male
72 year old male
72 year old female
80 year old female
83 year old male – deceased
The rate of people who have tested positive is four times higher for men, than women. Carlstrom said as the case volume increases, Chaffee County Public Health will only be updating the community on the number of positive and probable positive cases on a regular basis, not identifying gender and age. More detailed information will be provided on a weekly basis.
As of March 27, Chaffee County had submitted 137 tests, 87 had come back as negative, eight had come back as positive (that number increased to 12 over the weekend), one is considered a probable, and 41 were pending (that number has decreased to 37 over the weekend).
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