Data shows 3 new outbreaks

Data updated on Wednesdays from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shows three new coronavirus outbreaks in Boulder County, including one determined Tuesday at the Boulder Valley School District transportation terminal in Lafayette. Data shows two staff members have tested positive.

Also Wednesday, Boulder County Public Health reported 17 new cases of the virus, but no new deaths, while CU Boulder reported eight new positive tests on its online dashboard.

BVSD spokesperson Randy Barber said eight staff members have been placed into a quarantine following a reported confirmed case at its terminal.

“Impacted individuals will be kept at home for 14 days as a precautionary measure. The quarantine has not impacted bus service for students,” Barber wrote in an email.

The Starbucks at 3033 Arapahoe Ave. also had an outbreak determined Tuesday, with two staff members testing positive.

“Starbucks worked closely with the guidance of the CDC and local health authorities to make decisions based on facts and science, with the health and well-being of our employees and customers top of mind,” Starbucks Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Jory Mendes wrote in an email.

Mendes said when an employee tests positive, “we activate our protocols in alignment with this guidance, closing stores for deep cleaning where necessary, require our partners to self-isolate, and where possible, shift operations to utilize various store formats with (employees) who have not been in close contact with infected

individuals.”

Wild Basin Lodge in Allenspark has an outbreak determined Tuesday with three staff members testing positive and one considered probable.

Representatives from Wild Basin Lodge could not be reached for comment by phone or email by deadline.

The outbreak at the University of Colorado Boulder, determined Sept. 23, shows 1,527 attendees, or students, have tested positive, which is 24 more than last week.

Additionally, 168 attendees are deemed probable, seven more than last week. There have been 16 staff members who have tested positive, four more than last week.

Data shows active outbreaks remain at Elva Martinez Housecleaning, Boulder nursing home Mesa Vista, Louisville solar screen manufacturer Insolroll and Longmont automobile dealership Valley Nissan.

The 17 new cases reported by the county bring its total to 4,717.

Of those, 213 have been hospitalized and 80 have died.

There are 216 disease investigations in progress.

The five-day average of new daily cases Wednesday is 16.2. One week ago, the five-day average was 48.4. Data shows this is the lowest five-day average of new daily cases since Sept. 2.

CU Boulder’s eight additional cases continue an October streak of single-digit or no new daily cases. The campus conducted 142 diagnostic tests on Tuesday and 916 monitoring tests and had 26 campus isolation spaces in use.

University officials confirmed its dashboard includes information gathered from frontline employees’ monitoring tests, which started Sept. 22.

CU Boulder officials announced Wednesday that some in-person classes will resume next week.

Statewide, there have been 74,922 positive or probable cases. There have been 2,085 deaths among the cases, and of those, there have been 1,990 deaths due to the coronavirus. There have been 7,771 people hospitalized. Of Colorado’s roughly 5.7 million population, 974,863 people have been tested for the virus.