XBB.1.5 — nicknamed the “Kraken” — has yet to hit Colorado in full force. When it does, it could drive a new wave of infections.
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Opinion: How Colorado can prepare for the next COVID-19 variant
The Omicron surge has peaked and is falling rapidly as the number of people living in Colorado who remain susceptible to the virus shrinks. Our communities are returning to normal. However, a new Omicron subvariant that appears to partially overcome preexisting immunity to Omicron is likely to increase the number of Colorado infections in the […]
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COVID cases appear to be rising again in Colorado. Is another surge likely?
Late last week, a key line on a chart monitoring coronavirus case trends turned red, signaling something public health experts had not quite anticipated to be happening so soon: COVID infections appear to be rising again in Colorado. The increase so far is small, and it’s starting from one of the lowest levels of infection […]
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Colorado’s omicron-driven COVID wave appears to have crested — but not everywhere in the state
Colorado’s record-breaking wave of COVID infections caused by the virus’s omicron variant appears to have crested, state officials said Thursday. Reports of new infections began declining about a week ago, as did the percentage of tests coming back positive. “We have multiple ways of looking at data to try to estimate if the decrease we […]
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Colorado’s omicron-driven COVID spike has reached record heights. Here’s how to make sense of it.
Colorado’s omicron variant-driven surge in coronavirus infections is obliterating daily records in the state, leading to the most dizzying spike of the pandemic. At the same time, hospitalizations during the spike are rising slower — though still at a worrying rate. The result is a fast-changing situation that is challenging some of the state’s foremost […]
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The omicron variant may now account for as much as half of all new Colorado COVID infections
The omicron variant is rapidly gaining steam in Colorado, now accounting for potentially as much as half of all new infections, the state’s top epidemiologist said Wednesday. After several weeks of decline, COVID cases in Colorado have begun to rise again – though they are still about 50% below where they were in early November. […]
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COVID cases are down in Colorado, but the new omicron variant could change that
While the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 has seen a slight decline, public health officials fear the new omicron variant could change that. No confirmed cases of the potentially more transmissible variant have been detected in Colorado. The omicron variant was first identified overseas last week and there’s still a lot experts don’t […]