Updated state COVID-19 dial goes into effect
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and last updated 2021-02-06 19:21:48-05
COLORADO SPRINGS â The updated state COVID-19 dial went in effect Saturday morning, placing counties in new levels including El Paso, Pueblo, and Teller counties.
Changes in the new dial include going by a 7 day instead of a 14 day metric. There are also some changes to capacity level caps.
In level Yellow, businesses can have up to 50% or 150 persons using a space calculator, this is a change from the 100 person cap.
The changes come as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decline in Colorado.
During the governor s press conference Friday afternoon CDPHE Executive Director Jill Ryan acknowledged there has been a discrepancy in vaccine allocation with El Paso County. Ryan said staff is working to makeup the discrepancy.
Kathleen Daiutolo received her vaccine Thursday afternoon at UCHealth. Courtesy UCHealth
El Paso County will receive 12,900 doses of COVID-19 vaccine early next week. This follows a Feb. 3 statement from El Paso County Public Health saying the county âhas not received vaccine supply proportionate to population, and this needs to be remedied quickly.â
Public Health and El Paso County announced leadership at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had notified them of the increased number of doses Feb. 4.Â
âThis is part of an ongoing commitment from CDPHE to increase vaccine allocation to El Paso County and the County anticipates increased doses in coming weeks,â the Public Health statement reads.Â
El Paso County citizens who currently qualify for a COVID-19 vaccine should register to receive it through every avenue possible, as there is no single streamlined process, health officials said Tuesday. We are encouraging people to sign up for all the portals they can get access to, said Lisa Powell, public health emergency manager for the county health department, noting that providers may have different vaccine availability at different times. Being in the queue does not keep anybody from getting vaccinated.
County health officials announced Tuesday that Safeway would join the list of local COVID-19 vaccine providers. But the county s allocation of vaccine will not increase with the addition of the grocery-pharmacy chain as a provider, she said.
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Kat Pitner receives her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine from Aspen Valley Hospital’s registered nurse Erica Purcell at the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen, Colo. on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Pitner has lived in Aspen since 1974. “It feels awesome,” Pitner said about receiving the vaccine. “I so appreciate all of the people here getting this done.” (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times via AP)
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El Paso County update on COVID vaccine for seniors 70+
EL PASO COUNTY (KRDO) For the more than 65,000 seniors who are 70 years old and older, El Paso County is actively vaccinating them as quickly as vaccines are received from the state.
There is a limited supply of vaccines, but El Paso County expects to receive increased doses from the state in the coming weeks.
Based on the need to provide two doses to each of the approximately 65,000 people 70 and older in the county, the process will likely take at least through the end of February.
If you have registered for a vaccine with one of the county s providers, know that they will contact you as soon as your vaccine is available,