Tag: Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
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Denver-area residents can start getting COVID-19 booster shots this week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver-area seniors and high-risk workers can start getting their COVID-19 boosters this week, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares to vote on the shots potentially on Thursday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer booster doses Wednesday for seniors 65 and…
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Death of La Plata County resident might be state’s first plague death since 2015
Plague may have killed La Plata County man, possibly making him the first Colorado resident felled by the disease in six years, officials said. San Juan Basin Public Health was notified of the potential plague case on Wednesday, according to a press release. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is now leading an…
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Colorado nursing homes fined for COVID lapses, but also paid bonuses
More than 100 Colorado nursing homes that experienced COVID-19 outbreaks were fined for poor infection control and other pandemic-related failures — but those very same facilities also pocketed financial bonuses tied to infection rates, a 9Wants to Know investigation discovered. The fines and bonuses all came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
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Colorado Springs-area children, teens suffer mentally from pandemic pressures
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As Lexi Rowland’s schoolwork piled up and her friends down the block seemed like a plane trip away, a serious funk descended on the Discovery Canyon Campus High School senior. Loneliness reached in, grabbed on…
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CU Boulder researchers awarded $2 million to study gun retailers’ role in suicide prevention
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $2 million to researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder to study the role that gun retailers can play in suicide prevention. This funding is supporting a…
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Colorado among states getting fewer doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine than expected next week
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Along with other states, Colorado will be getting fewer doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine than it had expected, which Gov. Jared Polis blamed on the federal government’s inability to ship available supplies. The state had expected to receive 67,860 doses next week, but now…
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Colorado’s first doses of COVID-19 vaccine expected as early as Sunday, officials say; state resists CDC request for vaccination data
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are expected to arrive in Colorado as early as Sunday, and many frontline workers should be vaccinated by the end of February, state officials said Wednesday. Coloradans who aren’t at high risk for the potentially deadly virus will…
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Vaccine: First doses soon, but many may wait until summer
The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are expected to arrive in Colorado as early as Sunday, and many frontline workers should be vaccinated by the end of February, state officials said Wednesday. Coloradans who aren’t at high risk for the potentially deadly virus will likely need to wait until summer to be vaccinated, they…
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Colorado health officials still recommend 14-day quarantine amid CDC update
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published guidelines Wednesday to reduce the length of quarantine when exposed to COVID-19. However, state health officials are urging residents to take the two weeks. “The gold standard…
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Operation Warp Speed: America at its best | Vince Bzdek
Everyone just called him “the major.” He was the Department of Defense official in charge of the Operation Warp Speed team assigned to Moderna, one of the companies working at breakneck speed on a vaccine. The major was tasked with keeping Moderna’s efforts on track, the logistics guy to their science guys. Work on the…