Garfield County takes new direction on COVID-19 data

More than two years into the pandemic, Garfield County Public Health has changed the data sources reported on its COVID-19 data web page. The page is still active, but instead of calculating local information, it provides a central location for important links to current state and federal COVID-19 data. “There is still a lot of COVID-19 in the community as we see with our cumulative incidence rates, and it is not translating into severe cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. This is due to our high vaccination rate.” said Mason Hohstadt, Garfield County Public Health’s COVID data page administrator. The department staff