Heather Gard sits on the edge of her late son’s bed in the exact spot where she last saw him and shared a hug with him at the family’s home in Breckenridge. “I went in to give him a hug and he didn’t even stand up,” Gard said about her last hug with Toby, following a late night argument about going out of the house in April 2020, “Which was really not like Toby to (not stand up for the hug).”
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Leading Authority on American Indian and Alaska Native Health Spero Manson Receives 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award
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ATLANTA, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Spero M. Manson, PhD, a leading authority with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native health, today was awarded the 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. Manson is a distinguished professor and the Colorado Trust Chair in American Indian Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus where he directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health.
This year s award was presented virtually to Manson at the annual meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency, SOPHE held their annual conference virtually. The CDC Foundation with the James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation honored Manson for his outstanding contributions to America
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A mass vaccination clinic for those 70 and older, and underserved communities, at the National Western Complex in Denver on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.
Rolling out vaccine access by age group has changed the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in Colorado, even as cases and the rate of positive tests are back on the rise among younger age groups and yet another variant of the virus has been detected in the state.
In Colorado and most other states, the idea behind the vaccine rollout was to prioritize seniors and save vulnerable lives. That appears to be working, as the number of deaths has fallen in the state, while hospitalizations are flat.
Colorado health officials explore virus vaccine passports
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As of Monday, there is no statewide program for vaccine passports, the Denver Post reported.
“While we are exploring what’s working in other states, anything we do will be specific to Colorado and our needs,” a spokesperson for the state Department of Public Health and Environment said in an email. “A business could not access a customer’s protected health information, such as their COVID-19 immunization status, unless that person volunteered that information.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last Friday that any potential vaccine passports would be primarily directed by private businesses.
El Paso County could see an acceleration of COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks, as the state experiences a stubborn plateau in the continuing pandemic, health officials cautioned.
And the jump comes as the county is preparing to take over more control of pandemic-related restrictions by mid-April.
Increased indoor seating at restaurants, returns to in-person learning, more people traveling for spring break and the highest numbers of confirmed cases of two highly infectious variant strains of COVID-19 in the state are all indicators that the epidemic has “accelerated considerably” in El Paso County, said Dr. Phoebe Lostroh, a Colorado College professor who has a Ph.D. in microbiology from Harvard University.