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Close Aspen Valley Hospital clinical pharmacist Kelly Atkinson organizes the empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the command unit trailer set up next to the vaccination tent in the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. To keep track of the empty vials, the pharmacists labeled them with individual numbers. Before the vaccine is diluted, the unused vial of vaccine looks identical to the vials after the doses have been taken ou...

Search You Are Here:Home → Responding To The Pandemic: Housatonic Community College Offers First-Ever Spring Cohort For Advanced Manufacturing Program Responding To The Pandemic: Housatonic Community College Offers First-Ever Spring Cohort For Advanced Manufacturing Program By Housatonic Community College (HCC) | Posted by January 16, 2021 HCC Advanced Manufacturing student Quinn Hayes benefited from a full scholarship and encourages other women to enter the manufacturing fie...

Written by Laura Roberts For the first time in its history, Housatonic Community College (HCC) will offer a spring cohort for its Advanced Manufacturing program. The program, which begins on January 22, provides a direct path to well-paying, in-demand careers, and offers many students a full scholarship. In just eight months, students will gain the technical skills needed to become entry level machinists and receive assistance with internship placements. Upon completion in August, graduat...

A second case of the UK COVID-19 variant has been found in Colorado.

PATTY NIEBERG DENVER — A new variant of the coronavirus that may be more contagious has been found in a Colorado man who had not been traveling, triggering a host of questions about how the first reported U.S. case of the new version showed up in the Rocky Mountain state. The new variant was first identified in England, and infections are soaring now in Britain, where the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has surpassed the first peak of the outbreak in the spring. The new variant has ...

Colorado coronavirus new variant: Officials suspect theyve found a second case of UK variant CNN 12/31/2020 By Joe Sutton and Jason Hanna, CNN © Alissa Eckert/Dan Higgins/CDC This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A...

Two states confirm cases of Covid-19 variant first found in U.K. Corky Siemaszko and Phil Helsel © Provided by NBC News Two states, Colorado and California, have confirmed cases of a highly contagious Covid-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom. Officials announced Wednesday that the strain was found in a San Diego patient, hours after Colorado officials revealed that the first confirmed case in the U.S. is a member of the state National Guard. "Im not surprised that...

The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average is 15.5 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 4.0 % HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 16.9 % LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Todays posts include: U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 201,555 U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at a record 124,686 (for the next 9 days this is the number to watch as new cases and deaths will not be ac...

Fauci says US can return to normal by fall if it puts aside slow start and is diligent about vaccinations CNN 12/31/2020 © CNN If states are able to "diligently vaccinate" people against the coronavirus next year, the US could return to normal life by early fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday in an Facebook interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Although the Covid-19 vaccine rollout is off to a much slower start than expected, if the US is able to catch up, widespread vaccination c...

(Photo : Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) Check Colorado site tester Pamela Deemie holds a bag after administering a COVID test at Echo Park Stadium on December 30, 2020 in Parker, Colorado. Two U.S. states, Colorado and California, have each confirmed their first cases of the more contagious COVID-19 variant that was first identified in the United Kingdom. The earlier one of these cases was found in the state of Colorado for a male patient in his 20s who is currently in isolation, reported BBC. M...