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A $53 million plan to deliver rapid, at-home coronavirus tests to Colorado educators and frontline workers is in collapse, with the company the state hired to partner on the program ....
A $53 million plan to deliver rapid, at-home coronavirus tests to Colorado educators and frontline workers is in collapse, with the company the state hired to partner on the program accusing state officials of bungling the distribution rollout and placing nearly 1.86 million tests in danger of expiring. The company suspended testing services for the program on Sunday and is in a protracted dispute with state officials. Polis has said robust testing is a critical policy goal for the state. He pledged last year, early on in the pandemic, an “all-hands on deck” approach to expand testing. That approach has seen some successes, but also a recent setback related to an effort to expand surveillance testing in Colorado nursing homes. ....
Colorado paid more than $89.2 million to a coronavirus testing provider run by an ambitious 25-year-old entrepreneurial college dropout in California. But state officials abruptly severed ties with the company ....
Even as their residents succumbed to the coronavirus, nursing homes in Colorado hit with out… He also ordered all nursing homes to develop COVID-19 screening protocols for visitors and put in place long-term isolation plans in the event of a positive case. “We need to really up our game in practice in all of the senior care facilities across our state,” Polis said during a news conference at the time. But a review of federal data shows deaths continued to spike among nursing home residents in Colorado despite the governor’s steps to address the problem. Deaths in Colorado nursing homes increased dramatically in the fall and winter, and by December, Colorado had the highest weekly coronavirus death rate among nursing home residents in the country, about twice the national average. ....
Even as their residents succumbed to the coronavirus, nursing homes in Colorado hit with out… He also ordered all nursing homes to develop COVID-19 screening protocols for visitors and put in place long-term isolation plans in the event of a positive case. “We need to really up our game in practice in all of the senior care facilities across our state,” Polis said during a news conference at the time. But a review of federal data shows deaths continued to spike among nursing home residents in Colorado despite the governor’s steps to address the problem. Deaths in Colorado nursing homes increased dramatically in the fall and winter, and by December, Colorado had the highest weekly coronavirus death rate among nursing home residents in the country, about twice the national average. ....