Erin Eddy didn’t feel that bad, really, at first. And he didn’t have the symptoms qualifying him for a coronavirus test when he first checked with the doctor’s office. But he knows he has it now.

Eddy, 51, has the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Ouray County, and he wants people to know he didn’t have the classic signs of the virus everyone’s been hearing about. Though he had a fever, it felt much more like a flu at first, and he felt better briefly before feeling absolutely, pos...