Author: By SETH KLAMANN The Denver Gazette
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Mayor Hancock decries lack of national strategy, praises Denver residents as city enacts tighter COVID measures
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As coronavirus cases spike across the metro area, Denver slid into a higher level of restriction Tuesday, a move that will recommend schools move online and capacity within public spaces tightly curtailed. “This is what we get when we don’t have a national strategy, where we’re piecemealing the approaches, where states like Colorado took this…
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Arapahoe, Adams counties institute new health orders that limit gatherings, move up last-call, encourage remote work
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Hours after Denver instituted stricter public health orders, Arapahoe and Adams counties announced that they would limit gatherings and implement other restrictions in a bid to stunt the spread of the coronavirus. The new orders, which will expire Nov. 1, come as the counties are dealing with a spike in the virus that could force…
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Coloradans have ‘moral requirement’ to be tested for coronavirus if symptomatic, health official says
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Though coronavirus testing has drastically improved since the pandemic’s spring beginnings, health officials stressed Thursday that it is just one component of overall prevention that needs public buy-in to truly be effective. “We really need to focus on what we know works,” Eric France, the chief medical office for the state Department of Public Health…
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Outbreak at University of Denver is another aggregate of weeks of cases; state says the school has community spread
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For the second straight week, state health officials listed a Colorado university as the source of a sizable coronavirus outbreak, and for the second straight week, the school says there is no such outbreak. But state health officials said there was community transmission within the college and that reporting only on separate, smaller outbreaks didn’t…
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CSU’s Mountain Campus threatened by Cameron Peak fire
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FORT COLLINS — As the Cameron Peak fire forced more mandatory evacuations Friday, firefighters have focused on the southeastern end of a wildfire that’s burned for nearly two months and now threatens to roll through Colorado State University’s Mountain Campus. The fire was “extremely active” throughout the day Friday, officials said, and firefighters had expected it…
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State says CSU has second-largest active coronavirus outbreak; university disputes numbers
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State health officials reported Wednesday that Colorado State University is the site of a 375-person coronavirus outbreak, the second-largest active outbreak in the state. But in a statement posted to its website, the university disputed the data, and local health officials said the only outbreaks associated with campus are in a handful of Greek houses.…
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With drop in cases, CU-Boulder to resume in-person learning Oct. 14, allow orders to expire
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After a “significant” decline in coronavirus cases among young people in Boulder County, the University of Colorado will resume in-person learning next week and county health officials will allow two orders to expire that limited gatherings and kept some students in their homes. At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, CU Chancellor Phillip DiStefano and Boulder…
