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Colorado’s coronavirus surge swamps public health workers who track case counts, exposures
County health departments have switched to abbreviated questionnaires and robocalling. They spend hours hunting for duplicates in the case count.
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Tri-County Health director unsure if Colorado’s new coronavirus restrictions are enough, but “it’s worth a try”
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Denver aims to raise awareness of steadily worsening air quality on the Front Range
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Are you wearing your mask? Because public health officials in Colorado are watching you to find out.
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Threats, vandalism, job loss: Colorado’s public health officials are under attack as they respond to coronavirus
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“It feels like my back is up against a wall”: Why a handful of Colorado lawmakers are afraid to come to the Capitol
The Colorado legislature began allowing remote voting and participation this week after a partisan fight over whether to allow the practice.
Colorado public health agencies are alerting law enforcement about people with coronavirus
The Colorado Sun learned the practice is or was being carried out in at least six counties in the state. The ACLU of Colorado is worried about the protection of the information and the chilling effect it could have.
Health department orders closure of Castle Rock restaurant that packed in Mother’s Day crowd despite coronavirus
The owners of C&C Coffee and Korean Kitchen said they were standing up for America
Colorado college students, upended by coronavirus, are worried about food, housing and their education
5 weeks into Colorado’s coronavirus crisis, state health officials begin to request patient demographic details
Missing such data means lost opportunity to direct resources, alter treatment guidelines where inequities appear, and design control and prevention strategies, advocates say.
Coronavirus shut down many Colorado golf courses. Some stayed open by tweaking tradition.
Policies vary by county and town, but golfers can still find places to get in a disinfected, socially-distanced round -- though tee times are going fast
Deaths of at least 32 Colorado nursing home, senior living center residents linked to coronavirus
Six people have died of COVID-19 complications at Centennial Healthcare Center in Greeley alone. Four others from one Littleton assisted-living center, Libby Bortz, also have died.
Metro counties drop stay-at-home orders for one issued by state of Colorado
Public health departments representing Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Jefferson and Douglas counties say the patchwork of decrees was confusing, and tell residents to stay at home until April 11.
Colorado lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve immunization rates in 2019. Here’s what’s new this year.
Hundreds of people, many of them opposed to vaccines, filled the Capitol hallways Wednesday to testify on a bill that makes it harder to get an exemption
