Park County Health Officer: “No Hospital Visits is Encouraging Sign”

Aaron Billin, Public Health Officer for Park County, said Park County is the only infected county in the state to go seven days without the first case turning into a cluster.

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Annaliese Wiederspahn

March 24, 20201 min read

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(Cowboy State Daily Staff)
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The Public Health Officer for Park County on Tuesday offered up some good news.

Aaron Billin, Public Health Officer for Park County, said that Park County is the only infected county in the state to go seven days without the first case turning into a “cluster.”

Park County has one confirmed case of COVID-19, as of Tuesday morning, and that individual is quarantined at home — another good sign according to Billin.

“The fact that we have no confirmed cases sick enough to be in the hospital is encouraging,” he wrote.

Billin’s optimism was tempered, however. He said inadequate testing doesn’t present a full picture.

“This doesn’t mean we don’t have other unidentified cases in the County,” he said. “We believe we do, we just haven’t diagnosed them yet. We wish testing was not as limited as it is. The Wyoming Department of Health is working on this.”

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