Tag: Colorado School Of Public Health
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The Colorado School of Public Health starts new youth THC awareness campaign
The Colorado School of Public Health and creative collaborator Initium Health started an awareness campaign about the risks of potent cannabis with youth and parents. The first-of-its-kind public awareness campaign, “The Tea on THC” looks to educate Coloradans on the “often-overlooked” health risks of high-concentration cannabis, according to a news release from ColoradoSPH. The campaign…
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Rocked by deadly pandemic, Colorado public health faces needed rebuild
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado public health officials vaulted to prominence three years ago when residents started to sicken and die of COVID-19, kicking off a pandemic that would spark fierce, even violent political debate and offer clear lessons for the future. At the outset, the outpouring of response…
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Polis digs in as criticism grows over handling of latest COVID surge
In early April, Gov. Jared Polis’s public optimism neared its apex. After a winter spent fighting an unprecedented COVID-19 surge, cases were falling, mortality had plummeted, vaccines were flowing and a Colorado summer beckoned. Four months before, the governor had giddily greeted a FedEx truck delivering the first batch of doses to Colorado. He was…
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Why COVID rates in Colorado are making national news | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Scientists, state health officials and our governor can’t seem to tell us why Colorado is the third worst place in the United States suddenly for increased rates of COVID infections. A couple weeks ago we even made it briefly to No. 1. What the hell…
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West Nile Virus cases climb in Colorado; most cases seen in five years
West Nile Virus infections and deaths are both up from last year, and there have been more cases so far than at any point since 2016, according to data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. As of this week, 139 Coloradans have contracted the mosquito-borne illness, which has resulted in six deaths.…
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State health officials: Colorado currently in fifth wave of COVID-19 pandemic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Local health experts announced on Friday that Colorado has entered its fifth-wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as infections and hospitalizations have increased since July, according to a new statewide modeling report. Health experts from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado School…
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Colorado town hall to address questions about vaccines, herd immunity
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Community Conversation Will we reach herd immunity in Colorado? What if we don’t? Can it still be safe as COVID-19 lingers? The Denver Gazette and 9News are teaming up to try to answer these homestretch questions and more as we get closer to a return…
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Is it safe out there yet? Colorado town hall to address questions about vaccines, herd immunity | Vince Bzdek
Is it safe? After a year worrying about that question rather intensely, we’re getting closer and closer, and closer to an affirmative answer. But our rapid mobilization on vaccines — and simultaneous reopening of schools, restaurants and workplaces — is a complex dance, raising a blizzard of fresh questions as we zero in on answering that primary…
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Think forecasting COVID in Colorado was tough in 2020? It will be tougher in 2021, experts say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A mix of policy and behavior helped Colorado dodge a bullet late last year, contributing to a cumulative 2020 COVID-19 death count far below some of the worst-case scenarios predicted by the state’s modeling team in the fall, one of its members says. But were…
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More than half of the inmates infected in COVID-19 outbreak at Colorado prison
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A men’s prison in Crowley County east of Pueblo is battling the largest active COVID-19 outbreak among state correctional facilities. As many as 551 inmates have active cases at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility, accounting for well over half of the 993 inmates housed at the…