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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Denver Zoo taking steps to protect some of its animals from COVID-19
The Denver Zoo will begin administering COVID-19 vaccines to some of its animals as early as next week, the zoo confirmed Tuesday. While no specific distribution plan has been made, zoo officials said they will prioritize vaccinating animals that are most susceptible to catching the virus, including primates and carnivores like gorillas, tigers, mink and…
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After suffering COVID-19 vaccine-caused blood clots, Colorado woman sees problems with federal compensation system
Kendra Lippy, a healthy 38-year-old, nearly died this spring after severe blood clots thought to be caused by the Johnson and Johnson vaccine sent most of her organs into failure. Now facing a life without most of her small intestine, she wants to see a complex and opaque federal compensation system for those who suffer…
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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
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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What could Polis, Colorado have done better in COVID-19 fight? | Vince Bzdek
On Wednesday at 8:40 p.m., Gov. Jared Polis posted a major health policy change on Facebook, announcing that counties at the red level of the state public health department’s dial will move to orange on Monday. It was the second announcement of the day to take those most affected by surprise; at a news conference…
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Colorado among states getting fewer doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine than expected next week
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…