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Indeed, hospitalizations have actually gone up in recent days, case counts have apparently plateaued at a level higher than experts would like, and variants are growing rapidly — including one that had been merely categorized as "under investigation" but is now considered to be of significant concern. The press conference took place more than twenty minutes late because Polis was spending time with Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who were in Colorado to promote ...

The number of COVID-19 variant cases in Colorado is increasing and public health experts said the state must move to provide vaccines while simultaneously holding those variants at bay until broad, population-wide protections are reached. More than 570 variant cases have been identified in Colorado -- 336 cases of them are United Kingdom variant, which is known to be more contagious than the conventional COVID strain. Eleven cases of the South African variant have been identified after it was f...

As spring weather arrives, the desire to be out among other people will likely grow On a recent sunny afternoon in Denver, there was a breeze blowing through Washington Park. A lot of folks were out, enjoying the weather. Amy Brustkern watched her three kids fly around a basketball court on small electric cars called Crazy Carts. Asked if now, at the end of Year One, pandemic fatigue is a real thing, Brustkern was quick to answer. “Oh, big time. Absolutely,” she said, adding it is especiall...

By Mary Shinn mary.shinn@gazette.com The vaccination programs have cut the number of older Colorado residents battling the virus and the number of fatalities in that demographic. In the first week of February, 350 people 75 and older were infected with the virus. A month later, that had fallen to 147 cases. Last week, it fell to 122 cases. For long term care centers, there were 10 COVID deaths among residents in early February. For the past three weeks, there have been fewer than five. The numb...

David Zalubowski/AP A pedestrian in a face-covering walks past the sign plastered on the windows of a restaurant to announce that it is open after closure because of the coronavirus Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. While Colorado has moved beyond the winter COVID-19 crisis, cases and positive test numbers have stubbornly resisted returning to summer levels, and now hospitalizations are showing worrying signs of rising again. State hospitalization data released Monday showed the number...

As more and more Coloradans get COVID vaccines, restrictions can loosen up. But public health officials say were not there yet.

The highly transmissible South African COVID-19 variant has been detected in Colorado for the first time — in two staff members and an inmate at a state-run prison in Buena

Close The nursing home at the Good Samaritan Society in Simla in Elbert County is where the National Guardsman that caught the more contagious strain of the COVID virus was working. It is still unclear as to if this was where he caught it. A couple of passersby walk by the nursing home on the other side of the street in Simla on Dec. 30. Simla is a very small, quiet rural town that is about an hour east of Colorado Springs on Hwy. 24. (Gazette file photo) Erin Prater & Seth Klam...

Close The nursing home at the Good Samaritan Society in Simla in Elbert County is where the National Guardsman that caught the more contagious strain of the COVID virus was working. It is still unclear as to if this was where he caught it. A couple of passersby walk by the nursing home on the other side of the street in Simla on Dec. 30. Simla is a very small, quiet rural town that is about an hour east of Colorado Springs on Hwy. 24. (Gazette file photo) Erin Prater & Seth Klam...

COVID directly caused 3,588 deaths in Colorado last year — less than a quarter of some of the worst-case scenarios proffered by the states coronavirus modeling team last fall, according