So far this season, there have been 895 hospitalizations for RSV. Of those, 836 have been children.
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Black and Latino Coloradans are being disproportionately hit by monkeypox as cases rise
The number of monkeypox infections continues to rise in Colorado, but new state data shows evidence that Black and Latino communities have been hit harder. As of Thursday, the state has confirmed 168 cases in Colorado, stretching back to May. A majority of those cases — 94 — have been confirmed in August, though it […]
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It’s time for Coloradans to think about COVID again. Here are 5 things to know.
Just in time for the season of graduation parties and backyard cookouts, the slow rise in Colorado’s COVID cases over the past two months has begun to pick up pace. State health officials are predicting more infections and more hospitalizations to come for at least a few more weeks. But the outlook isn’t as grim […]
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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 […]
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The behind-the-scenes story of being Gov. Jared Polis during Colorado’s coronavirus crisis
A little more than a month into Colorado’s battle with coronavirus, Gov. Jared Polis and his team reached the helpless realization that there was no end in sight. At that point, more than 8,000 people had tested positive for the disease and over 350 had died, including scores living in senior-care centers. The stay-at-home order […]
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Colorado nursing homes with the most coronavirus deaths were cited for poor infection control
Last February, a month before coronavirus crawled through a Greeley nursing home, inspectors alerted the center’s managers of infection-control problems. Back then, before the pandemic had even arrived in Colorado, state regulators were worried about the way two nurses at Centennial Health Center cleaned a resident’s wound. The nursing home was cited for federal protocol […]
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To ensure noncitizens are included in vaccine drive, Colorado won’t check IDs
Colorado’s public health department sent notices Sunday to hundreds of providers directing them not to require government IDs or other documentation for people getting inoculated against the coronavirus. The directive is aimed at ensuring noncitizens and others who might not have an ID are included in the vaccination drive. Ignoring it could cause medical facilities […]
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“Absolutely historic”: First doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine arrive in Colorado, are administered
Colorado received its first shipment of the coronavirus vaccine Monday morning, launching a months-long inoculation process that health officials hope will start to have meaningful effects on limiting transmission of the disease in the state by late spring. A FedEx van delivered 975 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine to the Colorado Department of Public Health and […]
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Months ago, Colorado trained to prepare for a pandemic. But not one like the coronavirus.
In August, months before the first case of the new coronavirus was documented, some of Colorado’s top health officials gathered in a room at the state Department of Public Health and Environment to train for a pandemic. The hypothetical scenario: A highly infectious and lethal new virus had jumped from animals to humans in China […]
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Colorado’s governor says he is using data to guide the state’s response to the coronavirus. But the numbers are incomplete.
As Gov. Jared Polis stood before the television cameras this week to announce the statewide stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus pandemic, he fielded a question about when mandated isolation would end. “We will make that call based on the real data that we receive,” he said. For weeks, Polis has tackled this pandemic […]