Boulder County sees 2 new coronavirus outbreaks
Officials record 26 cases Wednesday
Coronavirus outbreaks have been determined at Boulder Valley Waldorf School in Niwot and Cinnamon Park Assisted Living in Longmont, state data updated Wednesday shows. Boulder County also tallied 26 new cases Wednesday.
The outbreak at Cinnamon Park was determined Monday, and three residents and one staff member have tested positive.
Cinnamon Park is owned by Senior Housing Options, and Jim Goddard, CEO of the parent company, said the facility has been practicing safe conditions for months.
Goddard said two of the infected residents have been taken to an area hospital, and the third resident has been isolated inside. The employee who tested positive will not come back to work until they are cleared, he said.
“We’re doing testing every three days for staff and residents,” Goddard said. “We’ve been talking all actions with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and every CDC protocol has been followed.”
Goddard also noted one resident and the employee were asymptomatic when tested, “which supports the notion this is a very complicated virus.”
Data shows two attendees of Boulder Valley Waldorf School have tested positive and one attendee is considered probable. The outbreak was determined Oct. 7.
Representatives from the private school could not be reached Wednesday for comment.
The coronavirus outbreak at Mesa Vista of Boulder was resolved Thursday, data shows.
The coronavirus outbreak at the University of Colorado Boulder, determined Sept. 23 is still active. Data shows 16 employees have tested positive, 1,527 attendees, or students, have tested positive and 168 attendees are considered probable. There is no change in this week’s outbreak data at the university compared to last week’s.
Active outbreaks remain at the Boulder Valley School District transportation terminal in Lafayette, where two staff have tested positive; Elva Martinez Housecleaning, where two staff have tested positive; Insolroll in Louisville, where three staff have tested positive and two are considered probable; Starbucks at 3033 Arapahoe Ave. in Boulder, where two staff tested positive; Valley Nissan in Longmont, where nine staff tested positive and four are considered probable; and Wild Basin Lodge in Allenspark where three staff tested positive and one is considered probable.
CU Boulder’s coronavirus dashboard shows 13 students have been suspended since Aug. 17.
This week there are 11 students on active interim suspension, meaning they are not allowed to attend any classes “pending the adjudication of their conduct hearing.” There are 29 students on active interim exclusions this week, meaning the student is not allowed on campus pending adjudication of their conduct hearing. Since Aug. 17, 63 students have been put on probation and there have been 357 education interventions.
CU Boulder’s coronavirus dashboard shows four positive cases returned from 113 diagnostic tests administered Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases since Aug. 24 to 1,110. On Tuesday 1,059 screening tests were performed, and the university’s dashboard lists 10 on-campus isolation spaces in use — 2%. There have been 5,447 on-campus diagnostic tests completed.
St. Vrain Valley School District last week began a coronavirus dashboard. It initially listed all cases to-date, then on Friday updated to only list active cases. Wednesday the dashboard was updated to list both active cases and cumulative cases divided by students and staff.
The dashboard states there have been 35 cumulative cases, and five of those are currently active.
One student at Erie High School, one staff member at Legacy Elementary School, one staff member at Mead High School, one student at Mountain View Elementary School and one student at Silver Creek High School are considered to have active cases.
The cumulative cases as a percentage of total population in students is .8% and in staff is .21%, the dashboard shows.
Boulder officials said Wednesday that seven parks and recreation employees have tested positive for the virus since Oct. 3
Boulder County’s 26 cases bring the total to 4,910 cases and the death toll remains at 83. There have been 220 hospitalizations and there are 253 disease investigations in progress.
Statewide, there have been 80,777 positive or probable cases. There have been 2,160 deaths among the cases, and of those, there have been 2,025 deaths because of the coronavirus. There have been 8,068 people hospitalized. Of Colorado’s roughly 5.7 million population, 1,039,775 people have been tested for the virus.