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FILE - In this Monday, April 26, 2021 file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV in Las Vegas. The pace of vaccinations is slowing in El Paso County as the number of cases are rising and a new variant was discovered in the community.
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Governor Polis extended the mask mandate until June 1.
The indoor mask order to guard against the spread of the COVID-19 virus remains in effect for all schools and certain other settings. For counties with greater than 35 cases per 100,000 people, the indoor mask order applies to groups of 10 or more unvaccinated people indoors and there remains no outdoor mask order. The order was further amended to allow indoor spaces where more than 10 people are present to go without masks, so long as at least 80 percent of those individuals are fully vaccinated, the governor s office said in a release. Vaccines not only protect you and your loved ones from getting this deadly virus but also allows Colorado to return back to normal, the release said. Reaching a high level of immunity is what will allow for a life without masks, but before that is possible, many more Coloradans need to get vaccinated.
Your Healthy Family: UCHealth data confirms COVID cases are rising among younger people
In Colorado, overall hospitalizations are up. UCHealth, for instance, reported that on April 1st, 2021, it had 70 patients in its hospitals across the state with COVID-19 infections. By Thursday morning, April 29th, UCHealth had about 150 patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â We are following up on our last story about the continued importance of COVID testing and how UCHealth has worked to make the testing process more patient-friendly. The health system now offers a less-invasive nasal swab to test for the virus.