Moo Bar inside Milk Market in downtown Denver. May 18, 2021.
The CDC and the Colorado state government have eased pandemic restrictions once again. If you’re fully vaccinated, officials say you don’t need to wear a mask in most settings. That change has also left masking policies up to individual businesses. And some aren’t happy about it.
For now, some businesses aren’t changing a thing. Burns Family Artisan Ales in Denver, for instance, is keeping their policy to require masks. Their tasting room, a rustic, cozy space with soft lighting, is bare of any furniture.
“Normally this would be an area that has a lot of couches, a lot of super comfortable chairs and rugs,” said co-owner Laura Worley.
Nine U.S. states have administered at least one coronavirus vaccine dose to 70% of their adult population
Seven of the states - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont - are in the Northeast and two states, Hawaii and New Mexico, are in the West
Twenty five states and Washington, DC, have fully vaccinated at least half of residents above age 18
Incentivized programs including lotteries with the chance to win large cash prices are driving vaccination rates up in states such as Ohio
On Sunday, the U.S. recorded 12,853 new coronavirus cases and 190 -related deaths, which are the lowest numbers reported in more than year, since March 24
COVID-19 tests used early on in the pandemic were unreliable, and labs at the CDC knew so
Failures of the early tests potentially cost the United States a few weeks to properly respond to the pandemic
Improper instructions to create the test were distributed by the CDC to labs across the country
Testing has since been fixed, as current tests are more reliable