Shimla, Colo. – A separate pastoral community on the plains is the last place whose inhabitants expect to be first for anything, especially the newer, more contagious type of coronavirus. But on Wednesday, state health officials announced that the first known case of variant in the United States has been confirmed at a nursing home in Shimla, Cologne.
The variant was infected by a National Guard soldier sent to the city’s Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home to help with the Kovid-19 outbreak. Emily Travanti, interim director of the state’s health laboratory, tested positive for another soldier in a nursing home and may have variables.
All 26 residents of the nursing home and 20 of its 24 regular staff have tested positive for coronavirus in recent weeks, and four residents have died. It was not immediately clear if the two National Guard soldiers were infected in the nursing home or if they had contracted the virus before they arrived in Shimla. Colorado State Epidemiologist Dr.
Shimla is an unlikely place for a recently discovered virus variant to launch in the United Kingdom. Most of the things that happen here don’t happen here. Trends come and go without notice. News is usually something seen from afar. For generations, this wind of short grass prairie has been shaped by the endless rhythm of raising cattle, spread over 1,000,000 feet, about miles000 miles southeast of Denver.
On Wednesday morning, after the news of the outbreak of the virus in Shimla, a resident was asked what has changed in the lonely paved street of the city in the 29 years he has lived there? She looked west at the snow-covered mess of the Law Law Mower outside MT Small Engine Repair in the west, where a piece of wild hen crossed the main street in front of a completely empty coach-light motel, and said, “Nothing. ”
That was very true when the virus first arrived in the United States earlier this year. As many as 200 residents of Shimla had left their lives believing that, like most of the things spread in the country, the epidemic would pass them by.
“When the virus first started in the spring, it was a quiet season and we were too busy to pay more attention to it,” said Don Don Bailey, a retired biology teacher who now runs a black Angus animal on the mud outside. “We were checking the herd five or six times a day, and you don’t have to wear a mask when you’re out with the cows.”
Summer passed without a case in the county, and community life changed little. The 4-H members showed off their prize sheep and cattle at the county fair, stayed in the school session and received sweets for coffee every morning at the Country Corner Cafe, the only breakfast spot in Shimla.
“We went ahead and canceled the supper we had with friends every Wednesday, but otherwise things have generally remained the same,” said Mr Bailey, 71. Despite the epidemic, he kept an ancient saddle museum building a building on its spread – although the visitors’ trick rarely broke the rules of most social distances.
The city’s sense of isolation from the global problem changed late this fall when a second wave of infection spread to Colorado and hit Shimla and surrounding Albert County, sending it to the level of a “serious threat” threat to the state, where it still is today. Soon almost everyone in this strict community knew someone was sick.
“I have a friend in the ICU right now,” said Sen. Kurchi, 71, who runs a cafe with her husband Michael. “A lot of people in the city are sick. They will say it’s just the flu or bronchitis, but it’s 26 miles to the nearest place where you can get tested. “
The response to the virus is shaped not only by geography but also by politics. President Trump received 74 percent of the vote here in November. Signs supporting it still spread to almost every block. On a quiet side street fence read: “Save freedom, trump vote.”
In an epidemic in which caution has become political, many residents refuse to wear masks. Despite being half a block from the nursing home, about a quarter of the way to the Shimla food store on Wednesday, where the entire patient population had recently tested positive and had been exposed to the mutable virus, their faces were exposed.
Ms. Kurchi nodded as she discussed the lack of a mask. Her longtime neighbors vowed to boycott the cafe because she and her husband needed masks.
On Wednesday, television news crews gathered in front of a polite, one-story nursing home while the crew in hazmat suits cleaned up and wisely passed through the back door where the scent of cleaning products wafted into an alley.
The state on Tuesday sent a team to collect new samples from residents and staff members at the nursing home. Based on the samples tested so far, Dr Herlihli said, it doesn’t look like the variant is rotating in the facility, but more samples were tested on Wednesday.
A National Guard soldier confirmed that a domestic rupee was segregating in Arapaho County on the outskirts of Denver, and that a suspect with a case was being held alone in a hotel in the eastern city of Limon, Dr. Said Hurley.
In a lone handicraft shop in Shimla, on a dirt road, where visitors alone lined half a dozen local cats outside the front door in the fox sun, the owner, Carla Tracy, phoned her friend, who told her. A new variant came to their city.
He said, ‘My gosh, this ET-BT city most people can’t even find on the map.’ “It simply came to our notice then. Then it hit us. Just wherever he goes to show up. “
