Two more Summit County residents died of COVID-19, according to a press release from Summit County Public Health. The deaths occurred on the 5th and 6th of February. There have now been a total of at least six deaths in Summit County by COVID-19, according to Summit Daily News records.
There are discrepancies between state and county mortality statistics and previous Summit Daily reports. The county website currently lists seven deaths in total among COVID-19 cases, however, Summit Daily previously reported four deaths due to COVID-19, plus two individuals who were positive for COVID-19 but died of other causes – the same information provided by the county in a Press release . 28. With the addition of the two deaths reported on Wednesday, that would bring the total number of virus-related deaths to eight, with six of those people dying as a result of the virus.
County officials did not answer questions about the discrepancies, age and sex of individuals who died in the past month or their specific causes of death.
Summit County receives information about the total number of virus-related deaths from the Colorado Electronic Disease Reporting System database. Deaths caused directly by COVID-19 are reported by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Vital Statistics Program, which determines a single basic cause of death based on what is written on the death certificate and in what order.
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