Denver International Airport, Feb. 27, as DIA officials first began to take notice of the pandemic.
Sue Sanders inside her car, where she sleeps at night in a Centennial Walmart parking lot.
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Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren brought her campaign for president to Denver s Fillmore Auditorium.
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg stopped for a rally at the Crowne Plaza hotel near Denver International Airport.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a campaign at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
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President Donald Trump campaigns in Colorado Springs, here mocking Democrat Amy Klobuchar for what he said was choking during a Democratic candidate debate.
Sharon Peterson is a resident at Fairacres Manor nursing home in Greeley, Dec. 21, 2020.
Like most Colorado skilled nursing homes, Fairacres Manor in Greeley has had a harrowing year.
In March, residents there began succumbing to COVID-19. At least 16 of them got the virus and 13 died with confirmed or suspected cases, according to data from the state health department.
Now Fairacres is in the midst of a smaller outbreak that started at the end of November, but has led only to infections, not deaths.
It’s one of the reasons Sharon Peterson will be rolling up her sleeve when pharmacy workers from CVS arrive Tuesday morning with vials of the Pfizer vaccine to inject into residents and workers. Peterson, who has respiratory problems and uses a wheelchair to get around, was born 75 years ago, shortly after the flu shot became available on a large-scale.
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Pharmacy clinical manager Dr. Suzanne May holds a vial of COVID-19 vaccine, at right, which will be diluted with sodium chloride solution, at left, at North Suburban Medical Center in Thornton, Dec. 17, 2020. The vaccine in the vials come ion a concentrated form. May estimates that there are seven doses per vial once diluted.
Colorado’s nursing homes and assisted living facilities, the sites most ravaged by the coronavirus, are anticipating the day residents and workers will receive their vaccines.
It can’t come soon enough, given the vast number of outbreaks and deaths at these facilities.