by Mountain Mail Staff
County-level Public Health orders will be given precedence as state public health restrictions tied to the stateâs COVID-19 dial framework change.
The dial is being phased out as a restriction tool as the landscape of COVID-19 evolves.
The change, prompted by increased vaccination rates and a decreasing threat to hospital capacity, allows counties to implement regulations on a local level while still maintaining some limited requirements across the state, a Chaffee County Public Health press release stated.
The dial is not going away yet. It will remain in place to serve as guidance to counties.
On Friday, Chaffee County entered the post-dial phase of its COVID-19 response, as the county public health department announced a new public health order in response to the statewide devolution of the dial system implemented last fall.
The COVID-19 dial set color-coded levels per county based on the documented prevalence of COVID cases, with each level corresponding to a tiered system of restrictions.
While the devolved dial still exists for guidance, the new state public health order issued April 16 allows counties to implement their own regulations at the local level while maintaining limited requirements across the state. In anticipation of the new and scaled back statewide public health order, Chaffee County Public Health (CCPH), along with many stakeholders from our Leadership Roundtable, sector representatives, and medical community, have been working on a local public health order that takes into consideration virus transmission trends, vaccination rates, hospital cap
Posted by Jan Wondra | Apr 16, 2021
Colorado’s strict, statewide COVID-19 Public Health orders expired at 12:01 a.m. last night. The COVID-19 Dial has evolved into Public Health Order 20-38: Limited COVID-19 Restrictions, which allows counties to implement regulations at the local level while still maintaining some limited requirements across the state.
Today Chaffee County Public Health joins the other 63 Colorado Counties in responding to the statewide devolution of the dial into – something else. It appears that herding cats might be easier than defining what that “something else” is; as counties take a variety of approaches from no restrictions at all (Weld and Douglas counties for instance) to local versions of modified restrictions.
Green Bay vicar general Daniel Felton appointed the bishop of Duluth
GREEN BAY - The vicar general of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay will become the 10th bishop of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota.
Pope Francis appointed Father Daniel Felton as Duluth s bishop. He will be ordained a bishop and installed in the diocese in Duluth during Mass on May 20.
Felton has been the vicar general and moderator of the curia for the Green Bay diocese since July 2014. Bishop-elect Felton, a native of the diocese of Green Bay, has excelled in his service to this diocese in the many positions he has held and has been a trusted adviser in his role as vicar general and moderator of the curia, Bishop David L. Ricken said in a news release. His presence, ministry and expertise will be sorely missed here, but he will bring many gifts to the faithful of the Diocese of Duluth.
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