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Increased testing, personal protection requirements for unvaccinated residential care staff
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis may have ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Colorado, but the pandemic isn’t over for residential care facilities. As cases of COVID-19 begin to increase in Colorado, fueled by the more contagious delta variant, the state Department of Public Health and…
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Increased testing, personal protection requirements for unvaccinated residential care staff
Gov. Jared Polis may have ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Colorado, but the pandemic isn’t over for residential care facilities. As cases of COVID-19 begin to increase in Colorado, fueled by the more contagious delta variant, the state Department of Public Health and Environment announced updated mitigation guidance for residential care facilities Friday.…
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After Denver jail COVID-19 cases spiked, officials scrambled to lower publicly reported counts
On Wednesday, May 20, when the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment published weekly coronavirus outbreak figures from around the state, one entry stood out: Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center, Denver’s largest jail, reported 398 new confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases, bringing the facility’s total to 581, the largest outbreak in the state. The spike…