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Gov. Jared Polis expressed no interest Wednesday in reinstating statewide public health measures because the state s hospitals remain stable despite an increase in COVID-19 cases and the continued dominance of the highly contagious delta variant.
The state has largely stepped away from any new COVID-19 measures since the spring when it turned over authority to individual counties. Months after that, counties have ended their own measures, with the fourth pandemic wave seen in the spring having been successfully tamped down.
Polis and state public health officials have said repeatedly that their worry has been hospitalizations, which were long feared to spike to the point of overwhelming the state s facilities. COVID-19 cases have seen a modest increase in recent days, but Polis said the stability of Colorado s hospitals gives the state little need to step in.
Under the state s current vaccination trajectory, two-thirds of Coloradans over the age of 11 will be at least partially inoculated by Labor Day, according to new projections released by state health experts Thursday.
The report, which has been released intermittently over the past year by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health, provides one of the rosiest projections of the coronavirus s presence in months. The researchers estimate that one in 390 Coloradans are infectious, far fewer than the one-in-81 figure included in the May modeling report and an improvement on the projections from March, which were similarly optimistic. What s more, roughly 54% of the state was believed to be immune to the virus, through a mix of vaccinations and prior infections.