and last updated 2021-01-25 14:30:29-05
With so much information being announced daily about the COVID-19 pandemic, here is a review and preview of what is going on in Southern Colorado as it pertains to the virus:
The Review
A new administration was ushered into the White House and President Joe Biden went to work signing multiple executive orders tied to dealing with the pandemic. Among them, a mask mandate for employees inside federal buildings, initiating the Defense Production Act to allow the private sector to play a bigger role in testing and vaccination efforts around the country.
The administration also set a target of 100 million doses of the vaccine distributed in the first 100 days of his presidency while Dr. Anthony Fauci, front and center again with the Biden White House, said that if we can get an 85% vaccination rate by summer, we should see some kind of return to "normalcy" by the fall. Again, it's a tall order with plenty of obstacles to overcome.