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COVID-19 hospitalizations, infections rise in Colorado
April 8, 2021 GMT
DENVER (AP) Health officials in Colorado have reported an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state while infections also suggest wider spread of the virus.
The state Department of Public Health and Environment said 450 people were hospitalized statewide as of Wednesday with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections, The Denver Post reported Thursday. The last time that many people were in the hospital because of COVID-19 was Feb. 19.
Larimer, Adams, Douglas and Pueblo counties saw an increase in hospitalizations while numbers in most parts of the state remained stable or slowly decreased. Hospitalizations in Pueblo increased 11 of the last 14 days.
COVID-19 hospitalizations, infections rise in Colorado
April 8, 2021
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DENVER (AP) Health officials in Colorado have reported an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state while infections also suggest wider spread of the virus.
The state Department of Public Health and Environment said 450 people were hospitalized statewide as of Wednesday with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections, The Denver Post reported Thursday. The last time that many people were in the hospital because of COVID-19 was Feb. 19.
Larimer, Adams, Douglas and Pueblo counties saw an increase in hospitalizations while numbers in most parts of the state remained stable or slowly decreased. Hospitalizations in Pueblo increased 11 of the last 14 days.
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Health officials in Colorado have reported an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state while infections also suggest wider spread of the virus.
The state Department of Public Health and Environment said 450 people were hospitalized statewide as of Wednesday with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections, The Denver Post reported Thursday. The last time that many people were in the hospital because of COVID-19 was Feb. 19.
Larimer, Adams, Douglas and Pueblo counties saw an increase in hospitalizations while numbers in most parts of the state remained stable or slowly decreased. Hospitalizations in Pueblo increased 11 of the last 14 days.
Health officials have said the relatively steep increase can be a sign that vaccines have not yet chased the virus out of Colorado.
El Paso County could see an acceleration of COVID-19 cases in the coming weeks, as the state experiences a stubborn plateau in the continuing pandemic, health officials cautioned.
And the jump comes as the county is preparing to take over more control of pandemic-related restrictions by mid-April.
Increased indoor seating at restaurants, returns to in-person learning, more people traveling for spring break and the highest numbers of confirmed cases of two highly infectious variant strains of COVID-19 in the state are all indicators that the epidemic has “accelerated considerably” in El Paso County, said Dr. Phoebe Lostroh, a Colorado College professor who has a Ph.D. in microbiology from Harvard University.