Tag: Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
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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…
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Colorado to test COVID-19 vaccine distribution in national pilot program
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado is one of 10 jurisdictions chosen to participate in a COVID-19 vaccine distribution pilot program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Operation Warp Speed. The test, conducted with the U.S. Postal…
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Not all masks created equal, but any better than none
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOULDER — Brady Bowman, a 19-year-old student at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and two friends strolled down 11th Street, all sporting matching neck gaiters branded with the Thomas’ English Muffins logo. He had received an…
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Polis signs executive order to protect tenants from pandemic-related evictions
Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order Wednesday protecting tenants from eviction who have been impacted by COVID-19, reaffirming the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s national eviction moratorium. Executive Order D 227 states that no landlords can file or initiate evictions if the tenant demonstrates financial hardship because of COVID-19. This protects tenants from…
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Drug overdoses just one example of ‘excess deaths’ during pandemic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Drug overdoses aren’t the only cause of death that have spiked since the beginning of the spread of the novel coronavirus. The number of deaths in Colorado caused by heart disease, stroke, liver disease and Alzheimer’s are all up over recent years, adding to the…