This story, a collaboration between Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism, is the first in a two-part series looking at the impacts of COVID-19 across six Western Slope counties. Challenges for health care providers included dealing with a transient community, staffing issues and public angst.
This story, a collaboration between Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism, is the first in a two-part series looking at the impacts of COVID-19 across six Western Slope counties, including Pitkin, Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Delta, and Gunnison. Challenges for health care providers included dealing with a transient community, staffing issues and public angst
How a group of nonresident homeowners tried to influence a rural Colorado election. Image credit: Luna Anna Archey/High Country News Jan. 1, 2021 From the print edition
April 2020, and the novel coronavirus was spreading through the United States. As businesses closed and hospitals filled, Jim Moran found himself sheltering in place in Colorado, at his second home. His mansion has dark wood siding and a jutting patio, and it perches on a bluff above Crested Butte, a small snow globe of a town whose brightly painted cottages huddle at the base of mountains at the north end of the Gunnison Valley, a long thin basin high in the Rockies. Moran is from Dallas, Texas, where he managed private equity firms. From his back door, he can ski directly onto Crested Butte Mountain Resort, one of Colorado’s iconic ski areas. Moran speaks quickly and passionately and has swept-back silver hair. Housing prices in rural towns have surged since the pandemic as well
Rural communities prepare for challenges in distributing COVID-19 vaccine
Weather, distance and resources are just some of the variables rural health departments will have to contend with Author: Marc Sallinger (9 News) Published: 7:26 PM MST December 12, 2020 Updated: 8:56 AM MST December 13, 2020
COLORADO, USA Once the vaccines make their way to Colorado, it’s going to take a massive effort to deliver them to people across the state. In rural communities outside the Denver metro area, the task is even more difficult. This is such a big step for us in our small town and across the globe, said CJ Malcolm, the Chief of EMS for Gunnison Valley Health Paramedics and one of the incident commanders in Gunnison County. This is a big moment.