The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) will close its 20 remaining COVID-19 testing sites on Jan. 15.
COVID-19 did not cause an Aspen restaurant to suffer income losses that entitled it to compensation from its property insurer, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday.
Despite speculation in social media circles and at the dinner table that the Thanksgiving Holiday may cause a spike of COVID-19 cases, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released data Wednesday which actually showed a slight decline.
A Colorado Springs-based drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination site is closing its doors, according to a Monday news release from El Paso County Public Health.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment gave its COVID-19 dashboard an updated look Wednesday. The new data portal will also feature weekly updates to Colorado's COVID-19 case numbers.
A federal judge has taken a sprawling lawsuit from 17 anonymous staff and students at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus and pared down the number of legal claims that may go forward challenging the school's COVID-19 vaccination policy.
three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit heard arguments in the lawsuit brought by 17 unnamed plaintiffs, who allege a pair of vaccination policies for CU's Anschutz Medical Campus unconstitutionally burdened the free exercise of their religions.
Gov. Jared Polis received the newest COVID-19 vaccine booster shot on Wednesday, the first booster designed to protect against the omicron variant of the virus.
Federal regulators approved COVID-19 booster shots to specifically combat the omicron variant Wednesday, and Colorado will begin receiving the majority of its shots after Labor Day, officials said.
Even with school set to resume this month, COVID-19 hospitalizations and infections in Colorado should decline over the next six weeks, according to modeling conducted by a team of state researchers.
Several hundred patients at two clinics in the metro area should be revaccinated, state health officials announced Friday afternoon, because of paperwork and storage-related issues.
Masks are no longer required in congregant settings in Colorado like prisons or homeless shelters, according to a newly revised state public health order, even when surrounding COVID-19 infection rates are high.
Even with school set to resume this month, COVID-19 hospitalizations and infections in Colorado should decline over the next six weeks, according to modeling conducted by a team of state researchers.
Colorado health officials are again recommending schools take a "layered" approach to COVID-19 prevention, but they're advising districts not to require mask or quarantine for in-class exposures unless there are larger outbreaks or cases are rising to high levels in the broader community.
COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Colorado fell this week after nearly two months of plateau, and health officials in the state are urging uptake of treatments to prevent severe disease.
Nearly 600 people who received COVID-19 vaccines from a Wheat Ridge-based provider should be revaccinated, state health officials announced Monday.
A new coronavirus subvariant is now dominant in Colorado, the latest strain to hold the throne here amid months of rivalries and emergences. It's mild, transmissible - just as transmissible as its omicron siblings - and may be better at escaping previous immunities.
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The use of a monoclonal antibody treatment slashed COVID-19 mortality by 30%, according to an international study co-lead by a University of Colorado researcher.
Nearly half of Jon Samet's tenure as the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health has been spent battling COVID-19, from modeling the virus's spread to advising state and local leaders; he even found time to keep a regular blog with his thoughts on the situation.
Colorado's pandemic picture has improved over the past two weeks, as key metrics have declined after reaching peaks well below previous surges.
Providers began vaccinating some of the youngest Coloradans on Tuesday, just days after federal regulators approved the use of the doses for children between six months and 4 years.
The requirement that Colorado health care workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to expire next month, state health officials said Wednesday, ending a successful and at times contentious mandate that contributed to high vaccination levels among providers and staff.
Colorado's COVID-19 situation has continued to worsen through early June, with positivity rates reaching some of the highest levels of the pandemic and a new subvariant of the virus achieving dominance here.
The number of Coloradans hospitalized with COVID-19 jumped 38% over the past week, state data shows, and metrics tracking the extent of the virus' spread here are at or near their highest levels in months.
Nearly all of the Denver metro area is now listed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having medium or high levels of COVID-19, as hospitalizations ticked upward again.
Colorado health authorities have barred a Pueblo primary care clinic from distributing the COVID-19 vaccine and blocked it from participating in a federal pediatric vaccination program, a decision prompted by what the clinic's owner said was an "unethical employee."
Over a third of Colorado's more than 13,200 COVID-19 deaths were vaccine preventable, according to a new analysis by Brown University, a figure that, while representing one of the better rates in the nation, still shows the effect vaccine hesitancy and access have had on the latter half of the pandemic.
Colorado has several weeks of increasing COVID-19 numbers ahead of it, state health officials said Thursday, a surge fueled by new sub-strains of the virus jockeying for dominance.
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.
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.
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 pandemic.
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.
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.
"I'm experiencing minor, cold-like symptoms and plan to work virtually while quarantining at our home in Denver this week," Bennet said.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced Tuesday that it suspended Red Rock Pharmacy from the state's COVID-19 Vaccination Program because of compliance issues.
When the novel coronavirus first began sending patients to Rose Medical Center two years ago, providers there "had no concept" of when the pandemic would end.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Colorado have increased for the first time after weeks of welcome declines, with the reversal fueled by the increased presence of sub-strains of the omicron variant.
A subvariant of the coronavirus's omicron strain now accounts for a majority of the new COVID-19 infections in Colorado, sending cases ticking upward slightly.
People who received an invalid dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Centennial-based Health Now Family Practice will need to repeat their dose or doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced Tuesday.
A Centennial primary care clinic has been suspended from administering the COVID-19 vaccine and 68 people will likely need to be revaccinated after a state investigation determined the clinic violated several federal standards.
Colorado health officials will close 40 community COVID-19 testing sites by the end of April, leaving 80 more open amid a broader effort by the state to transition pandemic response into the traditional health care system.
Colorado hit 13,000 deaths due to COVID-19 on Friday, the latest grim milestone in a pandemic that, while slowing, is still claiming the lives of Coloradans.
A federal judge has decided that while COVID-19 can qualify as a disability, a Colorado Springs woman terminated from her job at the outset of the pandemic failed to establish her employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act through its reaction to a COVID-19 diagnosis.
There were 84 Coloradans hospitalized with COVID-19 on Wednesday afternoon, the lowest number since the earliest days of the pandemic.
Another COVID-19 booster dose could be recommended for older Coloradans as soon as Tuesday, a Colorado health official said Monday afternoon, though federal funding worries may disrupt further distribution plans.
When the pandemic began two years ago, many policymakers and health officials worried over hospital capacity. Did hospitals — here and across the country — have enough beds to meet the expected flood of COVID-19 patients?
Omicron subvariant likely to lead to uptick in COVID cases, but shouldn't lead to surge, experts say
Despite a slight uptick earlier this week, COVID-19 cases in Colorado remain near their lowest levels of the pandemic, and experts say the spread of a new subvariant of the virus in Europe is unlikely to lead to an imminent surge here.
Denver officials: 'Stealth omicron' subvariant detected here, but city not concerned about new surge
The omicron subvariant has been detected in Denver, officials said Friday, but state authorities aren't concerned about a new surge arising from its arrival here.