COVID cases ticking up in Colorado as state prepares to hand over local regulation control
As Colorado enters its fourth COVID-19 wave â and cases, hospitalizations and percent positivity tick up â state public health officials said Thursday they are confident moving forward with transferring regulation control back to the counties on Friday.
Posted at 12:36 PM, Apr 15, 2021
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As Colorado enters its fourth COVID-19 wave â and cases, hospitalizations and percent positivity tick up â state public health officials said Thursday they are confident moving forward with
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During a nationally televised address on March 11, President Joe Biden said that the general public across the country will be eligible to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations no later than May 1. But Colorado aims to beat that date by weeks. We re very competitive, Governor Jared Polis said during his own address on March 12. As a result, all adult Coloradans should have a chance to enter into the inoculation line by mid-April, he noted.
Polis, joined by Brigadier General Scott Sherman and COVID Incident Commander Scott Bookman, whom he referred to jointly as the Scotts, began his address with an update on major statistics related to the novel coronavirus: 1,291 newly reported positive cases and 303 hospitalizations today. Both of these numbers represent increases from earlier in the week, and while Polis acknowledged that we don t yet know if that s a trend or a normal, daily fluctuation, he stressed that the percentage of state residents who ve been vaccinated isn t yet hig