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Colorado's public health order updated with program to assist businesses by Robert Davis, The Center Square  | January 06, 2021 09:30 AM Print this article Colorado's public health order has been amended to include the state's 5-star variance program designed to help businesses reopen amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's (CDPHE) amended public health order took effect on Monday, just as numerous counties across the state moved from Level Red, or severe risk, to Level Orange, or high risk, on the st...

Late on December 30, Governor Jared Polis announced on social media that on Monday, January 4, all of the state's counties currently at Level Red on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment COVID dashboard dial will move to Level Orange. He credited improving COVID-19 stats in the state for making the change possible. As a result, many businesses will see loosened regulations this week. Restaurants, for example, will be able to resume indoor dining — at 25 percent capacity or a maximum of fifty customers. But still, that's a big change from the closed dining rooms of Level ...

Throughout this pandemic, we have had to walk a difficult line between the public health crisis and the economic crisis. In reviewing the data today, Colorado has been in a sustained decline for 13 days, and only 73% of ICU beds statewide are in use. This is a direct result of Coloradans stepping up and taking the steps to protect themselves and others. In light of this and based on the data, I'm asking CDPHE to move counties in Red on the dial to Orange, effective Monday, January 4, 2021. This only applies to counties in Red, which is the category designed to prevent us from having to lockdo...

A sign encourages mask wearing in downtown Breckenridge. Colorado has started scaling up a program that allows local businesses struggling under the weight of Level Red coronavirus restrictions to apply for permission to operate at a lower level of the state’s COVID-19 dial. In a Friday news conference, Gov. Jared Polis announced the Department of Public Health and Environment had approved its first application—Summit County’s—to enter its so-called “5-star program.” It gives local public health officials the power to award special certifications to businesses that go all-out wit...

Colorado launches 5-star certification, a path to higher capacities. But not in Larimer. Rebecca Powell, Fort Collins Coloradoan Watch as local healthcare workers get Colorado's first COVID-19 vaccines Replay Video UP NEXT Starting Friday, Colorado counties can apply to set up a new "5-star" variance program that would allow businesses to have more capacity than current COVID-19 restrictions allow — and in some cases, it could reinstate indoor dining. But in Level Red counties, like Larimer County, the program won't be available unless there has been a two-week sustained d...