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The CDPHE considers an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other people connected to a specific location are confirmed within a fourteen-day period, or two or more cases of respiratory illness with an onset of symptoms within a fourteen-day period are paired with at least one additional COVID-19 diagnosis. The vast majority of businesses and facilities identified as outbreaks remain open while working with the department to monitor symptoms and prevent future infections. Until recently, the state's weekly outbreak reports had been fairly stable, ev...

During an April 14 press conference, Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver Department of Public Health and Environment Executive Director Bob McDonald outlined new approaches to COVID-19 in the Mile High City. Included among them are a revised mask mandate that immediately lifts the requirement to wear a facial covering outdoors and an updated public-health order that will move the city to Level Blue on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's dial dashboard as of Friday, April 16, when the dial becomes advisory rather than compulsory. Most metro counties are making similar move...

Which counties are likeliest to ditch regulations the fastest? In some of the state's most politically conservative counties, leaders and residents alike have decried restrictions since the start of the pandemic more than a year ago. And despite this state being solidly in the blue in statewide and national elections, there are a lot of conservative counties. In 2020, 37 of Colorado's 64 counties voted for Donald Trump, who consistently downplayed the seriousness of the virus and pushed aggressively to reopen the economy and society in general, often against the advice of his own health offic...

Pitkin County Public Health on why strict COVID-19 measures remain in place Continued winter tourism, COVID-19 fatigue, variants and a changing population could all play a part in Pitkin County's high COVID-19 incidence rate. Author: Katie Eastman Updated: 5:08 PM MDT April 6, 2021 PITKIN COUNTY, Colo. — In January, Pitkin County officials voted to voluntarily return to Level Red on the state dial because their incidence rates of COVID-19 were the highest in the state. They are now in the slightly less restrictive phase of Orange, but are only one of two coun...

Over 30 Colorado Counties Can Have 100 Percent Indoor Capacity Get our free mobile app CBS4 said that there is an update to the dial that allows full capacity indoors, but parties are still restricted to no more than ten people, and those groups must be separated from each other by at least six feet. Right now, Larimer and Weld County are Level Yellow, but have Level Blue business variances. Level Blue counties that have those variances, however, can also have 100 percent capacity. Colorado has no counties in Level Purple or Level Red, but Pitkin County and Summit County are in Level Orange,...