As of May 10, 2021, there are 653 confirmed cases and 50 suspected cases of COVID-19 among hospitalized patients in Colorado.
Some health officials in Colorado have warned that continued high numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations point to the pandemic not being over yet despite the state's average infection rate decreasing by nearly a third since April.
Colorado was averaging 1,731 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases each day in late April — the most since Jan. 19 — but the numbers fell nearly every day since then, The Gazette reported Monday. The state now averages 1,182 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past week, health officials said.
“Colorado is heading in a positive direction again, and vaccination coverage is almost certainly playing a key role in this decline,” said Glen Mays, chair of the Colorado School of Public Health’s department of health systems.