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Chelsea Self / Post Independent The rate of new coronavirus disease cases in Garfield County continues to decline, following state and national trends of late, but there is some concern that the number of people seeking testing has also dropped off. As of Tuesday, the number of new COVID-19 cases per day over the past two weeks had dropped to less than nine. The latest seven-day total was 34 cases, and the county’s test positivity rate has dropped to 2.2%. Both of those measures, and a test-turnaround time of 1.8 days, puts Garfield County at Level Blue, or “cautious,” in terms of risk ...

Colorado State University Pueblo has announced that it will host an in-person commencement ceremony this May. "We are hopeful as we plan for an in-person commencement ceremony, especially because we worked so hard to bring this tradition back to our campus in 2019,” said Timothy Mottet, president of CSU Pueblo, in a news release. “Our Commencement team is keeping safety as a priority in the planning, by including our local public health experts in the conversation. "We also remain flexible with a virtual component to be inclusive and safe for all those celebrating our CSU Pueblo gra...

During a February 9 press conference, Governor Jared Polis politely but firmly rejected Denver's request to prioritize members of its homeless population for vaccination against COVID-19. But Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, speaking at his own press conference today, February 11, refused to take no for an answer. Instead, he continued to stress the need for getting members of the city's unhoused population inoculated as soon as possible, and revealed that if the federal government agrees to directly ship medication to cities, as he hopes, he'll devote some of the supply to that purpose. Hancock...

El Paso County’s COVID-19 incidence rate isn’t dropping as quickly as it was, public health officials say, warning that this could slow the move toward looser restrictions.

JB Pharmacy, 915 W. Northern Ave., got its first 200 doses of COVID vaccine this week after Owner Jeanette Burns ordered the vaccine four times before finally getting them. “When they initially approached us about doing vaccines, at that time there was only the Pfizer vaccine, and so most of your pharmacies didn’t jump on the band wagon because we didn’t have the freezer. Then they came out with the Moderna vaccine,” Burns said. Because JB Pharmacy gives vaccines to people on Medicaid, they were already linked to the state. “They sent me an email and asked if we would be interested ...