Colorado - Coronavirus COVID-19

[ColyH]

Eagle County had it's first Covid-19 death since July.

Just went to the local Walmart and everyone was wearing a mask and even saw some people wiping down carts. Looks like people are starting to take this seriously.

 

[margarita25]

COVID In Colorado: Nearly 5,200 New Cases Reported Thursday

* New record, 5,197 new cases

* 7 day avg. positivity rate=11.68%

* New high: 1,183 hospitalized (90% of facilities reporting)

* Colorado set a new record for testing on Wednesday

Additionally:

“Officials said they expect to have a vaccine available to the first phase of recipients — first responders, healthcare workers and some others — by the end of November or early December. Larger shipments of doses are expected in the first quarter of 2021.“

 

[margarita25]

Colorado tightens COVID-19 restrictions in 12 more counties

 

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COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Colorado at record-breaking rate | 9news.com

 

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COVID In Colorado: 'Hug Tent' Helps Bring Loved Ones Together During Pandemic

 

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Colorado COVID statistics | 9news.com

 

[margarita25]

COVID In Colorado: Gov. Jared Polis Warns Thanksgiving Quarantine Should Start Today, Or You'll Be 'Playing Russian Roulette'

“Polis laid out the current number of people infected — about 1 in 110 Coloradans contagious with coronavirus statewide, with more troubling numbers in some areas (1 in 58 in Adams County, 1 in 64 in Denver) — and then stated that “if you have a Thanksgiving group of 10 folks … coming in, that means you have about a 1 in 11 chance of somebody being contagious with COVID in that group.“”

 

[margarita25]

Boulder County tops 8,000 coronavirus cases to date; 2 more deaths reported

CU Boulder / COVID-19 campus updates: Nov. 12 edition

Boulder County to enforce additional public health requirements | KDVR FOX31

 

[margarita25]

Colorado has no capacity limits for grocery stores, prompting chains to create their own policies

 

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Colorado Ski Resorts Were Poised To Open For Winter. A Record Spike In Coronavirus Cases Is Testing Their Plans

 

[margarita25]

Eagle County prepares for a move into orange on Colorado’s COVID-19 dial

 

[margarita25]

Polis to issue executive order outlining steps for COVID-19 hospital surge capacity
More than 6,000 cases reported in Colorado Friday — an all-time high

“The hospitals will have to have a plan to increase their bed capacities by 50% — something Polis said many hospitals had already been working on — how they can transition medical and surgical beds into ICU beds; how to treat patients without COVID-19 who need ICU beds; submit plans for how to surge staffing; report the maximum number of non-ICU and ICU beds to the state on a rolling basis; and have a plan on how they will manage, reduce, delay or put a moratorium on elective surgeries, Polis said.

Polis said he had also ordered the state Emergency Operations Center back to Level 1 status – the highest response level – to coordinate the state’s coronavirus response with local and federal agencies.“

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““These are our darkest days as a state,” Polis said of the latest numbers.”

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“Polis said that the executive order would streamline communication and data exchanges between hospitals, health care providers and the state should hospitalizations continue to increase. He said the order would contain an “order of operations” that health care providers can follow to determine when next steps would need to be taken. He said he had already activated medical work force staffing contracts to help with the staffing surge.“

(much more at link for reference re: hospital surge capacity)

 

[ColyH]

I really believe ski areas will be opening up no matter how many people test positive for the coronavirus. How long they stay open is another story.

 

[margarita25]

COVID In Colorado: Loveland Hospital Implements 'No Visitor' Policy

“LOVELAND, Colo. (CBS4) – As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise, Banner Health Medical facilities in northern Colorado are moving to a no visitor policy across the board. The decision was made to help protect healthcare workers as well as patients, and will have only three exceptions.“

 

[margarita25]

Larimer County COVID restrictions; What you should know now

 

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Colorado hesitant to issue stay-at-home-order over fear of economic ruin

 

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Colorado coroner warns of uptick in COVID-19 cases | 9news.com
‘Hold onto your butts:’ Colorado coroner has warning amid statewide COVID-19 surge
El Paso County Coroner Dr. Leon Kelly warned of a difficult couple of months in Colorado if COVID-19 trends continue.

“”The vast majority of outbreaks at this point or spreading events are those informal gatherings with family, friends, families getting together, neighbors getting together,” Dr. Leon Kelly said.“

 

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COVID-19 outbreak infects hundreds at Colorado jail | 9news.com

“EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. — Authorities at a county jail in Colorado have said 911 of the 1,246 inmates in custody last Sunday tested positive for COVID-19, along with 73 employees.“

 

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COVID in Colorado: Contact tracing lags as cases rise | 9news.com

“JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colorado — Contact tracers can't keep up with the spike in COVID-19 cases in Colorado. They are now less likely to do a detailed retracing of steps and less likely to do it in a timely fashion.

“The requirement at the beginning was contact within 24 hours, which we were very much able to hit and it was a very thorough case investigation. We then had to scale back,” said Christine Billings, Jefferson County's emergency preparedness and response coordinator, who said they're now contacting people up to three days after they've tested positive.

If they can't get to you before then, you won't get a call, just an email or letter in the mail asking contacts to follow isolation instructions and get ahold of them to do additional tracing. Billings said they’ve had a “pretty good response rate” on that mail.“

 

[margarita25]

Colorado Springs restaurants face tough winter amid tighter COVID-19 restrictions

Colorado public health departments weigh local stay-at-home orders