COVID surge accelerates with 12 cases in four days

Coronavirus case numbers climbed higher in Jefferson County during the past week and weekend, continuing a recent spike of new cases after a relative lull in the late spring and early summer.

Eight new cases were confirmed between last Thursday and Monday, and there were 13 active cases being monitored in the county on Monday afternoon, according to a report issued by Boulder Medical Clinic Coordinator Molly Carey.

The latest increase in cases raised the county’s daily new-case average to 2.9 cases per day, up from an average of 2.3 cases per day last Thursday, according an analysis by The Monitor. Along with 13 active cases in the last week of July, this is the greatest number of active cases the county has seen since March. Due to the increase last week, Carey said she began putting out two case reports per week—one on Monday and another Thursday. Between Aug. 9 and Aug. 12, Carey reported an increase of 12 new cases, meaning there were at least 25 new cases from that Monday, Aug. 9, to this Monday.