I’d been one of the lucky ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. I don’t know anyone who has tested positive, and I’d remained healthy throughout the last few months. Honestly, COVID-19 started to feel like a far-off media story that wasn’t impacting my community. At the same time, Colorado was about to hit 28,000 cases. So […]
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I thought our family would dodge coronavirus. Then came the symptoms.
The four of us hadn’t traveled in the time leading up to the arrival of the coronavirus, and so I had no reason to think that our family would be the first family we knew to get COVID-19. But the illness got personal in a hurry. When we first heard about the coronavirus I was […]
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Coronavirus testing is lagging so much that some Colorado counties are asking citizens to self-report symptoms
They call it a citizen epidemiological project. As COVID-19 testing across the state and nation focuses on the already ill or high-risk workers, a grassroots program from Eagle County is taking root across Colorado as more communities enlist citizens to self-report their symptoms. With real-time citizen reports aligning with lab-confirmed test results, local health officials […]
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Medical professionals said I probably had COVID-19 but nobody would test me. It was terrifying.
My name is Katie and until the middle of March I was a healthy 29-year-old who only worried about getting through my work day to work on my novel. Now, my focus has shifted, because every day since then has been a lesson in advocating for my own health. On Wednesday, March 18, I began […]