Thirty schools and five colleges and universities have reported small outbreaks this month, with many of them coming in the past week, as students return to classrooms. Â
Across the K-12 institutions, 95 students and 55 staff members have contracted the virus, up from 18 and 14, respectively, a week ago, according to data published by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. All of the outbreaks are relatively small, especially when compared to the state s prisons or long-term care facilities.Â
Of the 30 school outbreaks that have been identified this month, 20 were added to the list of outbreaks in the past week. Roughly half of the January outbreaks are in the Denver metro area, though none in Denver Public Schools itself, which is still phasing students back into classrooms.Â
Grocery stores
There are 31 active COVID-19 outbreaks at Colorado grocery stores. Another 37 are listed as resolved.
The active outbreaks have led to 453 cases among staff but zero deaths, according to CDPHE. Two employees died at a now-resolved outbreak at a Denver King Soopers last year.
No attendee cases have been tied to grocery store outbreaks.
Grocery store employees are among the essential workers slated to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in March.
See the full list of grocery store outbreaks below.
Schools
There are 85 active COVID-19 outbreaks associated with K-12 schools in Colorado, with 200 cases among staff and 608 among students, according to CDPHE.
Last week s Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment update on outbreaks of COVID-19 showed a significant drop in newly identified sites, suggesting that the worst might finally be over for retail establishments, health-care centers and other facilities. But no: The latest weekly CDPHE outbreak number is almost double that from just seven days earlier. Moreover, one of the new entries, the Apple Store at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, demonstrates how difficult it is for even the most diligent operations to keep the novel coronavirus at bay indefinitely.
In a November post about COVID-19 safety at malls in Level Red zones, we singled out the Cherry Creek Apple Store as the gold standard for pandemic-era safety: masked staff, monitored access complete with temperatures taken at the door, appointment scheduling, extremely limited capacity and more. If an outlet that s instituted such procedures isn t immune from viral spread, then nowhere is entirely safe and right no
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