Tag: Covid-19
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Colorado respiratory season looks like ‘typical’ year after pandemic
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After three years of uncertain respiratory seasons because of mitigation efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic that included face masks and social distancing, local health care officials believe this year just might be the return to normal. Without transmission routes in 2020 with public schools and…
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Infectious disease docs: Respiratory illness season this year unlikely to see COVID-19 spikes of the past
COVID-19 cases are eking up in Colorado, but local infectious disease doctors aren’t worried — yet. The reason? This isn’t 2020. While three years ago infectious disease experts were grappling to understand how the novel coronavirus was transmitted, today health officials have a number of tools in their arsenal: COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, prior infections…
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Colorado Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera tests positive for COVID-19
Primavera’s diagnosis comes one week after White House visit
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Walmart offers same day COVID-19 testing in Denver
Walmart launched a new, same-day testing and treatment program in a dozen states, including Colorado, that will allow patients to treat and manage respiratory symptoms in one place — just in time for flu season. Walmart pharmacists will now be able to administer tests for strep throat, flu and COVID-19 and provide a diagnosis in…
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Federal judge throws out Bandimere Speedway’s COVID-19 lawsuit against Jeffco health chief
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A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from Bandimere Speedway that sought to hold Jefferson County’s former public health director liable for his enforcement of COVID-19 protocols against the racetrack in the early months of the pandemic. John Bandimere Jr. and Lorraine Bandimere, who own the speedway near Morrison, alleged Jeffco’s public health director…
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10th Circuit in Denver throws out challenge to military’s now-rescinded COVID vaccine mandate
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The federal appeals court based in Denver dismissed an attempt by two ex-military personnel to halt the U.S. Department of Defense’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement, recognizing on Thursday that the government had already rescinded the mandate and there was nothing for the court to block. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Colorado Supreme Court rules commercial property owners not entitled to 2020 tax relief due to pandemic
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In four separate cases encompassing hundreds of commercial property owners, the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying public health restrictions on businesses did not entitle the owners to a lower property tax bill for 2020. Eleven lawsuits across Colorado challenged…
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Powwow attendees can enjoy festivities, free COVID-19 vaccine | HEALTHY BITES
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save COVID-19 ain’t over just yet. Organizers for a federal initiative to increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines want the public — especially the vulnerable — to know that getting inoculated is the best defense. The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment will be providing…
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Who’s responsible? Accountability questions remain after Denver County jailhouse death
Unanswered questions about accountability linger a year after a man died in Denver’s downtown detention center, after several days of begging for medical care as he experienced chest pains, trouble breathing, nausea and losing his ability to swallow medication. Medical staff repeatedly sent him back to his cell even as fellow inmates and sheriff’s department…
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Colorado ranks No. 32 in CDC’s recommended vaccine shots for youngest children
“Vaccine-preventable diseases” cost Colorado $13 billion over two years to treat