Coronavirus

Infections are still rising in Colorado thanks to hyper-transmissible variants, but the outlook is not too bleak

Gov. Jared Polis has pressed the federal government to speed up the approval timeline

Colorado lawmakers are debating several consequential — if complicated — measures that would reform the health care system

State officials are trying to understand how the emergence of a new variant — omicron BA.2.12.1 — will impact the trajectory of infections

House Bill 1356 would provide grants up to $100,000 to at least 350 organizations

The pandemic amplified already rising rates of childhood depression and anxiety. School teachers are learning to provide mental health first aid to thwart tragendy.

Julissa Soto ha estado organizando eventos de vacunación en los tipos de lugares a los cuales los funcionarios de salud pública con frecuencia no van: iglesias, discotecas y mercados.

Julissa Soto has been organizing vaccination clinics in the kinds of places where public health officials often don’t go: Churches, nightclubs and markets

Experts believe the state still has high levels of immunity, likely making any possible surge caused by the omicron BA.2 variant less severe

The Nod app, piloted across eight school districts, helps students learn ways to form new face-to-face friendships after the pandemic left many isolated and anxious

A discreet warehouse in Denver holds hundreds of thousands of coronavirus test kits, part of a program to deliver free tests to every American household.

The state has generally done better than the rest of the nation in preventing infections and deaths

Colorado’s coronavirus vaccination campaign may appear to have hit a wall. But there are still ways to persuade unvaccinated people to get the shot.

Earlier this month the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment was looking to the private sector for help in rethinking strategies to deal with the presence of the virus forever

Poor health standards resulted in a coronavirus outbreak inside the immigration detention facility run by the private, for-profit GEO Group, advocacy group says.

The standards provided guidance and liability protection during periods of high stress on health care workers

The change mirrors decisions in previously COVID-cautious blue states like New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Oregon that have also dropped school mask requirements

Threats began shortly after videos surfaced showing teens lying to clinic staff at Heritage High School as part of a deliberate attempt to shut down the clinic

Some tribal leaders blame off-reservation schools, where masks are not required, as cases among Ute Mountain and Southern Ute members surge