Colorado School of Public Health
Colorado’s omicron-driven COVID spike has reached record heights. Here’s how to make sense of it.
More people now have the virus -- and are potentially capable of spreading it -- than at any other time during the pandemic
COVID outbreaks have shut down some Colorado schools. Will holidays and cold weather make things worse?
Nearly 40% of COVID cases related to outbreaks in Colorado are at schools as the delta variant rapidly spreads among students and staff.
Colorado’s governor always said hospital capacity would dictate a new mask mandate. So why hasn’t he issued one?
Jared Polis vowed Aug. 12 to take action before Colorado’s hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID patients. They are nearly overwhelmed.
Colorado’s slim chance at herd immunity is slipping away as people’s COVID-19 protection wanes
Data from UCHealth University of Colorado hospital illuminates the debate over immunity from infection vs vaccination
How programs across Colorado aim to end “period poverty” with free tampons and pads
People who menstruate sometimes find themselves choosing between buying food and paying for hygiene products. Schools and charities are trying to change that equation.
A Colorado clinic’s prescription for healthier patients? Lawyers.
Every day in Commerce City, four lawyers join the physicians, psychiatrists and social workers at Salud Family Health Centers’ clinic, where mending legal ills is as important for health as diet and exercise.
Smoke from faraway wildfires may be worse for Coloradans than if it came from blazes in their own backyards
Some initial studies have shown that long-range smoke may be more toxic and since one of its characteristics is that its smoky smell disappears, it is sneakier.
Why coronavirus vaccine booster shots may help you, and why they may not help society
A booster shot of a COVID-19 vaccine will likely give people a little extra protection. But some health leaders wonder at what cost.
Colorado is inching toward coronavirus herd immunity – but not just due to the vaccine
The state’s uneven vaccination rates mean the pandemic has splintered into “a series of epidemics,” one top epidemiologist says
Opinion: The world is on fire from COVID-19. If we work together, we can put out the flames.
No country will be safe from the pandemic until the rapid spread is stopped everywhere, especially in large countries living in poverty.
Some of the worst ozone pollution in the U.S. settles along the Front Range. New rules to fix it are ahead.
Colorado has made some progress toward reducing the chemical dangerous to human health. But it will take leaning on automobiles and oil and gas producers to really move the needle.
Opinion: Access and information, not hesitancy, are the biggest challenges in getting more Coloradans vaccinated
The hesitancy we need to confront is not in the hearts and minds of Coloradans of color — it is in the institutions that exist to serve them.
More than 20 Colorado counties are poised to move to the lowest level of coronavirus restrictions
The changes come as the state implements "Dial 3.0," which makes it significantly easier for counties to achieve less-restrictive status
Why Coloradans should get the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, despite headlines about lower efficacy
The clinical trials figures might not mean what you think they do and other arguments that Colorado health leaders make in favor of getting the Johnson & Johnson shot
An Aurora doctor tried to prioritize refugees for the coronavirus vaccine. Colorado told him to stop.
“We need health affirmative action,” says Dr. P.J. Parmar, who tried to make sure the 500 vaccine doses he gets each week go to people who live in the 80010 ZIP code
Confusion and omissions dampen hopes for speedy COVID-19 vaccinations of unhoused Coloradans
Providers are concerned about getting unhoused people back for the required second dose of coronavirus vaccine.
In latest coronavirus data, Colorado researchers can glimpse the end of the pandemic
As long as the state maintains current levels of social distancing, the risk of overrunning hospitals has likely passed, according to new modeling projections
Colorado school outbreaks nearly doubled in November as coronavirus cases surged
A Chalkbeat analysis found that K-12 schools account for 14% of outbreaks but only 5% of cases from outbreaks. Colleges and universities represent only 2% of outbreaks but 16% of cases.
Colorado’s coronavirus deaths haven’t yet spiked as cases have. Health leaders say that’s not a reason for complacency.
Though hospitals are better at treating COVID-19 patients now than in the spring, strained hospital capacity makes it harder to sustain those advances
Colorado coronavirus cases reach highest levels since end of July
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported 3,439 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the week ending Sunday, showing an increase of about 1,100 cases compared to the previous week
