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Colorado health experts warn that the surging delta variant requires a behavioral and public health response as federal officials say that the variant is as contagious as chickenpox and that
Gov. Jared Polis expressed no interest Wednesday in reinstating statewide public health measures because the state's hospitals remain stable despite an increase in COVID-19 cases and the continued dominance of the highly contagious delta variant. The state has largely stepped away from any new COVID-19 measures since the spring when it turned over authority to individual counties. Months after that, counties have ended their own measures, with the fourth pandemic wave seen in the spring having been successfully tamped down. Polis and state public health officials have said repeatedly that the...
Under the state's current vaccination trajectory, two-thirds of Coloradans over the age of 11 will be at least partially inoculated by Labor Day, according to new projections released by state health experts Thursday. The report, which has been released intermittently over the past year by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health, provides one of the rosiest projections of the coronavirus's presence in months. The researchers estimate that one in 390 Coloradans are infectious, far fewer than the one-in-81 figure included in the May modeling report and an improvement on the projecti...
Today Partly to mostly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 94F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.. Tonight Some clouds early. Mostly clear skies along with windy conditions late. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 61F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph, becoming NNW and increasing to 20 to 30 mph. Updated: July 9, 2021 @ 12:30 am
Colorado is leading the nation with the highest rate of new coronavirus cases over the past seven days, federal data shows. But the spread of the virus is slowing across the state and nationally, and though the numbers show Colorado is behind other states, COVID-19 metrics here are lower than at any point since March and far below fall spikes. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention data show Colorado is seeing about 145 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people on average over seven days. Alabama has the second highest rate of cases, followed by Maine and Minnesota. The state is far outpac...