Summit County COVID-19 Case Data

Summit County Public Health is actively monitoring, tracking, tracing and investigating COVID-19 cases in our community.

Summit County Case Data

Summit County COVID-19 case data is updated once each weekday. Please note that the number of positive cases reported here greatly underrepresents the actual spread of disease in our community, because of a nationwide shortage of test kits.

Data updated as of: 5:00 p.m., Monday, April 27, 2020

  • Positive cases: 1301
  • People tested: 5202
    • Pending tests: 41
    • Negative tests: 340
    • Positive tests: 103
  • Cumulative hospitalizations: 403
    • Tested positive: 24
    • Tested negative: 14
    • Pending tests: 1
    • Indeterminate result: 0
    • Lost specimen (lab): 1
  • Summit County Deaths: 24

1. The number of positive cases includes people who have had a test that indicated they were positive for COVID-19. The number of cases also includes epidemiologically linked cases: cases where public health epidemiologists have determined that infection is highly likely because a person exhibited symptoms and had close contact with someone who tested positive. The number of epidemiologically linked cases represents a small portion of the reported cases.

The number of positive test results reported here does not accurately reflect the spread of illness in our community. We have reason to believe that the number of individuals with COVID-19 is much higher.

2. The number of pending tests and total number of individuals tested may not capture all testing activity related to Summit County residents. Individuals are being tested in other counties, and we are not privy to those numbers until the results are reported to us. Additionally, we are testing individuals who work in Summit County but reside in an adjacent county, and their results are compiled with their county of residence.

3. Hospitalizations represent individuals with severe COVID-19-like symptoms. All these individuals are tested for COVID-19, and our published hospitalization number includes individuals whose tests are positive, negative and pending. This number represents cumulative hospitalizations, not the number currently hospitalized. Some patients have been discharged; some have been transported to other facilities at lower elevations.

4. This figure represents the number of deaths of Summit County residents, even if a death occurs in another county because a patient is transported to lower elevation for treatment. Any decedent who tests positive for COVID-19, prior to death or post mortem, is counted as a death with COVID-19, even if the cause of death is due to a separate illness or injury.

State of Colorado Case Data

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment publishes statewide data at about 4 p.m. each day.

Positive Cases by Age*

  • Ages 0-9: 2%
  • Ages 10-19: 3%
  • Ages 20-29: 22%
  • Ages 30-39: 21%
  • Ages 40-49: 17%
  • Ages 50-59: 18%
  • Ages 60-69: 9%
  • Ages 70-79: 7%
  • Ages 80+: 3%

Positive Tests by Gender*

  • Male: 59%
  • Female: 41%
  • Unknown: 0%

Positive Cases by Race/Ethnicity*

  • White, Non-Hispanic: 43%
  • White, Hispanic: 55%
  • Black, Non-Hispanic: 2%

*Totals may not add up to 100% due to rounding

Cumulative Summit Cases

Cumulative positive cases of COVID-19 in Summit County. The curve continues upward through April 15.
Number of positive cases over time. Summit County saw 9 new cases the week of April 12.

Summit County Symptom Tracker

Have you felt ill at any point since March 1? Anonymously enter your symptoms to help us track COVID-19 activity in Summit County. To log symptoms or view the data dashboard, visit the Summit County Symptom Tracker.

Please note that the Symptom Tracker is not compatible with the Internet Explorer browser or older versions of the Microsoft Edge browser. We recommend using another browser, such as Google Chrome or Safari. Alternatively, download the most recent version of Microsoft Edge, which is compatible with the Symptom Tracker.

COVID-19 Testing Limitations

Prior to late April, there was limited testing capacity in Summit County. There were bottlenecks of pending tests at the state and private laboratories, and the nationwide shortage of test kits was forcing us to prioritize for testing Summit County first responders, Summit County health care providers and those who were moderately or severely ill. Otherwise healthy individuals who were exhibiting symptoms of mild respiratory illness were not being tested for COVID-19, and were therefore not accounted for in the number of positive cases we were reporting for several weeks.

Vail Health, St. Anthony Summit Medical Center and the Summit Community Care Clinic are now conducting widespread community testing for anyone who has symptoms. This will provide Summit County Public Health with the necessary data to assess whether it is appropriate to relax some of the strict social distancing regulations that have been in place this spring.

If you have had any symptoms of respiratory illness (100.4+ fever, muscle aches, cough, shortness of breath, headache, sore throat) please enter them into the Summit County Symptom Tracker so that we can better understand the spread of illness in our community.