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Christie Aschwanden / KHN On a sunny Saturday this month, Ruth Hatfield was sitting with a friend’s dog on a sidewalk bench in downtown Grand Junction. Back home in Snowmass Village, 120 miles away through winding Rocky Mountain roadways, local officials had just shut down indoor restaurant dining as COVID-19 cases reached some of the highest levels in Colorado. Here in Grand Junction, though, restaurants were open, and Hatfield had sought out those with the local health department’s “5-star certifications,” a designation meant to reassure people it is safe to patronize businesses during the pandemic. Those 5-star restaurants are part of an innovative program that allows businesses that agree to follow certain public health protocols to be open with less stringent rules than would ordinarily apply.

Mesa countyUnited statesGrand junctionDouglas countySnowmass villageSan franciscoDiane schwenkeBill hiltyKirsten bibbins domingoJeff kuhrRuth hatfieldJill hunsaker ryanHunsaker ryanJosh niernbergUniversity of californiaDepartment of epidemiology