Colorado officials resume review of ketamine program after Elijah McClain’s death
Colorado health officials will resume their review of a program allowing ketamine to be administered outside of hospital settings, an investigation initially announced after the death of Elijah McClain in police custody.
The 23-year-old Black man died in August 2019 after paramedics administered the powerful anesthetic during a confrontation with police. A grand jury investigation into McClain’s death was announced earlier this month.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) first announced the ketamine program review last summer, about a year after McClain’s death, before “pausing activities to reassess the scope, in deference to other investigations,” the agency said in a news release Friday.
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Variant found in man in his 20s who is in isolation in Elbert County
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A French firefighter from the Sapeurs-Pompiers du Nord, who has been deployed from France to assist in testing, conducts a COVID-19 test on a driver at the Port of Dover in Kent, where thousands wait to resume their journey across The Channel after the borders with France reopened. Trucks inched slowly past checkpoints in Dover and headed across the Channel to Calais on Thursday after France partially reopened its borders following a scare over a rapidly spreading new virus variant.(Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
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A French firefighter from the Sapeurs-Pompiers du Nord, who has been deployed from France to assist in testing, conducts a COVID-19 test on a driver at the Port of Dover in Kent, where thousands wait to resume their journey across The Channel after the borders with France reopened. Trucks inched slowly past checkpoints in Dover and headed across the Channel to Calais on Thursday after France partially reopened its borders following a scare over a rapidly spreading new virus variant.(Aaron Chown/PA via AP)
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A sign on the door of Carbondale Beer Works, a restaurant in Garfield County, explains the breweryâs temporary closure. After learning a customer had tested positive for COVID-19, the restaurantâs entire staff was tested out of an abundance of caution. The establishment remains closed pending those results.
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Garfield County commissioners intend to designate restaurants, small retail businesses and gyms as “critical,” in hopes of allowing leeway for them to continue operating at the current levels even under the state’s new Level Red COVID-19 designation for the county.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Wednesday advised the county it was being moved to the “Severe Risk,” or Red level on the state dial due to the recent surge in new coronavirus cases and a worrisome trend in new deaths and hospitalizations.
“This … will require the county to implement restrictions across all sectors as defined by the state in its metrics dial,” CDPHE Executive Director Jill Hunsaker Ryan wrote in a letter to the commissioners, Public Health Director Yvonne Long and County Manager Kevin Batchelder.