Tag: Scott Bookman
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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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Colorado closes COVID-19 community testing sites by mid-January
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) will close its 20 remaining COVID-19 testing sites on Jan. 15. As more Coloradans have relied on at-home COVID-19 tests in the past several months, the demand for testing at the state’s community sites has dropped to between 3 to 6% of overall capacity, according to…
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Colorado RSV cases rise sharply, increasing hospitalizations for children
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials said Monday cases of Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have risen sharply, especially among children. The increased number of cases has taken its toll on the state’s healthcare system, and state Epidemiologist Rachel Herlihy said during a Monday press conference there are a limited number of pediatric intensive care unit…
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Gov. Jared Polis announces roadmap to guide Colorado into post-COVID future
Gov. Jared Polis on Friday announced the state’s next chapter in dealing with COVID-19, a new plan that he calls a “roadmap” to keeping the state prepared for dealing with COVID surges while life in Colorado goes back to normal. Polis told Colorado Politics on Thursday that the roadmap will include a set of recommendations…
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Colorado’s troubled partnership with California COVID-19 testing firm
Colorado paid more than $89.2 million to a coronavirus testing provider run by an ambitious 25-year-old entrepreneurial college dropout in California. But state officials abruptly severed ties with the company after federal regulators warned that those officials allowed improper use of the test in nursing homes with some of the highest death rates in the…
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Colorado had America’s highest nursing home coronavirus death rate at end of 2020
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis a year ago pledged an aggressive approach to tamp down surging coronavirus cases in the state’s nursing homes, calling on the Colorado National Guard to help with testing for the virus at…