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Colorado’s struggle to improve school vaccination rates shows the challenges ahead for a coronavirus vaccine
Before the pandemic hit, the state finally pushed its kindergarten vaccination rate above 90%, but access to health care and pockets of resistance are still issues
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2 Colorado deaths attributed to multi-system inflammatory syndrome, the child disorder linked to coronavirus
By Jesse Paul Coronavirus Primary category in which blog post is published
Opinion: WHO cuts will lead to maternal and childhood deaths across the world
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Opinion: Budget cuts create opportunities — child mental health and welfare should advance
By Edward D. Breslin Opinion
Opinion: Here’s how we can keep kids healthy during the coronavirus pandemic
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Opinion: The coronavirus exploits vulnerabilities associated with inequality and health disparities
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If you’ve recovered from coronavirus, Colorado hospitals want your blood. It might save another patient’s life.
Children’s Hospital Colorado is the third site in the nation to transfuse a critically ill person with plasma from someone who survived the infection
Colorado blood supplies approach critical levels as coronavirus-wary donors stay home
Dozens of blood drives have been canceled, and donors are now being asked if they have been in countries beset by COVID-19
Colorado opened one of the nation’s first drive-through testing sites for coronavirus. This is what it looked like.
Gov. Jared Polis said the state must “exponentially scale testing as immediately as we can.”
A decade into the opioid crisis, Colorado hospitals have changed the way they treat opioid-exposed babies. And it’s helping.
Colorado newborns are now less likely to get methadone and more likely to room with their moms
Colorado lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve immunization rates in 2019. Here’s what’s new this year.
Hundreds of people, many of them opposed to vaccines, filled the Capitol hallways Wednesday to testify on a bill that makes it harder to get an exemption
Colorado hospitals just avoided tens of millions of dollars in federal funding cuts — but it might not last
The cuts would most affect hospitals like Denver Health that care for a lot of uninsured patients
