So far this season, there have been 895 hospitalizations for RSV. Of those, 836 have been children.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
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Colorado paramedics enduring expensive delays in ambulance deliveries
Emergency service providers are waiting years for delivery of ambulances that previously took only months as manufacturers grappled with supply chain challenges
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Colorado health officials warn of “early and intense” respiratory virus season in children
Colorado is seeing a spike in cases of RSV in infants and toddlers at the same time influenza and COVID-19 cases are rising
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Colorado opts out of federal program that tracks teen behavior as youth mental health worsens
Local public health officials say they can get a better idea of what’s going on with youth using the Healthy Kids Colorado survey, which reaches about 100,000 teens compared with 80,000 nationwide in the CDC’s survey of Youth Risk Behavior.
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Citizen scientists want clarity on hidden emissions from Pueblo’s coal-fired power plant
People in Pueblo are at the forefront of an emerging partnership between activists, conservationists and a newly created state unit to quantify environmental justice hotspots in Colorado communities and the toxic pollutants that bedevil them.
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Experts say vaccines, behavior changes worked as Colorado’s monkeypox cases decline
After more than two years of the COVID pandemic, it’s a bit of good news for the public health system
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At Colorado’s largest reservoir, one national park scientist shifts her focus to toxic algae
Blue-green algae is native to Colorado’s largest reservoir. Two research projects seek reasons for its toxic bloom at Blue Mesa and how to stop it.
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Colorado adds new water quality protections for South Platte, Clear Creek in sharp reversal
Environmental advocates cheer overturn of controversial 2020 decision that wrote off the urban waters as too polluted for saving
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Omicron COVID vaccine booster shots are here. Will Coloradans get them?
The new bivalent vaccines, specifically formulated to fight the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants, come as possible booster fatigue begins to set in
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Do Colorado “factory farms” need tighter regulation?
Environmental groups team with DU law school demanding a new permitting system they say will better protect clean water