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Dr. Steve Brizendine in the Intensive Care Unit of Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.
Even as the pandemic seems to be receding, about 500 people remain hospitalized in Colorado with COVID-19. Almost all of them share a common trait: they are unvaccinated.
The vaccines now in use and available to just about anyone 12 and older provide near universal protection against illness and even greater protection against severe cases leading to hospitalizations. Even more, doctors in hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in the state can’t recall a single death of a vaccinated person.
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Mobile: Thousands of joyful revelers, many without masks, competed for plastic beads and trinkets tossed from floats as Alabama’s port city threw a Mardi Gras-style parade Friday night, its first since Carnival celebrations were scrapped earlier this year by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many lined up shoulder-to-shoulder and several deep along sidewalks, shouting and cheering as nearly 30 floats and several high school marching bands crossed a stretch of downtown Mobile. With COVID-19 hospitalizations and vaccinations ebbing, many partied with abandon. It was definitely not a Mardi Gras parade: Those can only be held during Mardi Gras, the period before Lent. But it felt a lot like one, which was a big part of the goal after months of lockdowns, illness, deaths and face masks. James L. Hurst said he was jubilant to be out partying after a difficult year. Many had no face coverings amid an upbeat mood sweeping the crowd on a balmy sprin
The superintendents of 12 Denver metro school districts are asking state health officials to end mandatory quarantines for students who are exposed to COVID-19 at school.