Colorado Newsline Proposed cash fund would reimburse organizations for mental health, substance use resources Flowers lean on a fence surrounding the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder where a day earlier, March 22, 2021, a shooter killed 10 people. (Carl Payne for Colorado Newsline) At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Colorado mobilized its State Emergency Operations Center to respond to the public health emergency. The SEOC — with the help of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding — worked with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to expand health care capacity, launch dozens of community testing sites and process countless COVID-19 tests, and administer and distribute millions of coronavirus vaccines.