Tag: Jon Samet
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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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Six months in, Colorado officials urge patience, diligence as state awaits COVID-19 vaccine
The rumors were swirling in early February that the Department of Defense had tapped the Colorado Army National Guard’s facility on Fort Carson to potentially quarantine Americans fleeing Huebi province in China, the center of an outbreak of a wild new virus. Globally, more than 30,000 had been infected. The bulk of cases had occurred…