Tag: coronavirus
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Colorado officials recommend schools use masks, other measures — but will they require them?
State health officials Tuesday night “strongly” recommended school districts use layers of infection control efforts such as masking and distancing, but they stopped short of mandating any measure, instead leaving those decisions to local policymakers. In a document released by the state Department of Public Health and Environment, officials urged using a mix of masking,…
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Outbreak at homeless shelter in Colorado Springs leads to return of stricter practices
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After bringing back all 107 employees and 180 volunteers in June, Colorado Springs’ largest homeless shelter has a COVID-19 outbreak infecting 17 staff and clients. The most recent confirmed cases at Springs Rescue Mission were detected June 25, and the outbreak remains active, according to El…
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Outbreak at homeless shelter in Colorado Springs leads to return of stricter practices
After bringing back all 107 employees and 180 volunteers in June, Colorado Springs’ largest homeless shelter has a COVID-19 outbreak infecting 17 staff and clients. The most recent confirmed cases at Springs Rescue Mission were detected June 25, and the outbreak remains active, according to El Paso County Public Health data. Springs Rescue Mission since has…
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Cases of COVID-19 variant have quadrupled in El Paso County, data show
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The number of confirmed cases of a new highly transmissible and more dangerous COVID-19 variant strain in El Paso County has quadrupled in the last two weeks. Data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Wednesday showed El Paso County is home…
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Cases of COVID-19 variant have quadrupled in El Paso County, data show
The number of confirmed cases of a new highly transmissible and more dangerous COVID-19 variant strain in El Paso County has quadrupled in the last two weeks. Data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Wednesday showed El Paso County is home to 258 confirmed cases of the extra transmissible, more dangerous…
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NEWS | Five Colorado teens, one adult win vaccine prize money
Another group of vaccinated Coloradans are ending this week with hefty purses after they became the latest winners in Gov. Jared Polis’s vaccine incentive campaign.
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NEWS | Colorado’s second vaccine lottery winner
Friday afternoon, Gov. Jared Polis announced that Stephanie Ward, of Littleton, Colo., is the latest winner in the “Colorado Comeback Ca$h” sweepstakes. (Video by Katie Klann)
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NEWS | Colorado’s 1st million dollar vaccine lottery winner
Hear from Colorado’s 1st million dollar vaccine lottery winner, Sally Sliger, a healthcare worker and Mead resident. (Video by David Mullen)
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Biden speech takeaways: Government is good, and so are jobs
President Joe Biden is using his first address before a joint session of Congress to make the case that his administration has made progress during the first 100 days he’s been in office, confronting the public health and economic maelstrom caused by the coronavirus pandemic
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Colorado College requires students, employees to be vaccinated for fall semester; PPCC is ‘absolutely not’ doing so
Colorado College will join more than 100 other institutions of higher learning and require all 2,700 students and employees on the campus north of downtown Colorado Springs to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof before returning to campus for the fall semester. “It’s the most effective and safest way to get back to Colorado…