Author: SETH KLAMANN The Gazette

Denver’s COVID-19 risk level has been raised to medium by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the city announced Friday afternoon, amid a recent, statewide uptick in cases driven by new and increasingly transmissible versions of the virus.  Colorado reported more than 2,300 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the most in a single day since…

An outbreak of disease that has killed more than 140 horses at a federal facility in Cañon City is slowing, officials said this week, and evidence suggests that equine flu, strep and environmental factors all contributed to the surge of deaths. One-hundred and forty-four horses from the Cañon City Wild Horse and Burro Facility have died…

In a joint letter to President Joe Biden, Gov. Jared Polis and his Massachusetts counterpart, Charlie Baker, urged regulators to quickly authorize the COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 5. “Parents have been told, over and over again, that COVID-19 vaccines are on the horizon for their children,” the governors wrote in a…

Four months ago, the omicron variant ripped through Colorado. As much as 10% of the state was sick at one time in early January, and hospital staff were not spared. Between infections in their own ranks and intense patient pressure upon emergency rooms, facilities found themselves at one of their most critical points of the…

Colorado’s COVID-19 cases have seen a “substantial increase” in recent weeks, the state’s top epidemiologist said Thursday, and hospitalizations are projected to increase by several hundred over the next two months. Even still, though, those highs are expected to be well below the peaks of January and late 2021. Colorado’s reporting roughly triple the number…

COVID-19 cases in Colorado have continued to tick upward over the past month and the state’s positivity rate is at its highest point since mid-February. State modeling predicts a surge but to a smaller extent than previous waves, and state experts are working to update the state’s emergency hospital standards before an anticipated fall and…

Bradyn Heit was a month from his 18th birthday and his high school graduation when he fatally overdosed on fentanyl pills in July 2017. His mother’s golden child, he’d wanted to play professional football. His mother also had struggled with substances. She died a month after Bradyn. The teenager who had apparently given Bradyn the…