Hospital Patient In Denver Shares Story Of 20-Hour-Long Wait For Room
As the pandemic wears on, hospitals are filling up fast. A normal visit to an emergency room can mean hours of waiting before being admitted to a hospital room.
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As the pandemic wears on, hospitals are filling up fast. A normal visit to an emergency room can mean hours of waiting before being admitted to a hospital room.
The Douglas County Health Department approved a new public order allowing families to receive exemptions from mask requirements on Friday for physical or mental health reasons.
Edora Pond in Fort Collins is closed after about 10,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into Spring Creek.
The policy would allow parents to send their students to schools without masks and teachers to stop wearing one while in school.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Friday reported 890 hospitalizations patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19: 682 unvaccinated and 208 vaccinated. But looking deeper at the numbers, some of those, are among people who are not hospitalized for COVID-19, but who have tested positive.
With similar symptoms like fever, tiredness, cough, and shortness of breath... doctors around the Denver metro area will have another tool to determine if patients are sick with COVID-19 or influenza.
A Colorado Springs clinic can no longer take part in the state's efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccines to patients.
Kits were sold to the Department of Defense and at major retailers including Amazon, CVS, Target and Walmart.
Recently announced vaccination rates for companies and government organizations have all exceeded 95% of employees complying with the orders to get vaccinated or potentially lose their job.
On Thursday, Pfizer and BioNTech officially asked the U.S. for FDA authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Some question whether the expanded vaccines will help with the outbreaks at Colorado schools.
According to UCHealth, the majority of transplant recipients and living donors are now required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Neither woman has received their shots.
Thursday is the deadline for employees at Aurora Public Schools to get their COVID-19 vaccines in order to keep their jobs.
The COVID-19 vaccine has made in-person gatherings safer, lowering the risk of getting and spreading the virus.
While the state's rapid COVID-19 testing program inside schools started slowly, more districts are getting onboard nearly two months into the school year.
It was a packed house at the Denver City Council meeting on Wednesday morning to debate a new initiative that would ban flavored tobacco and vape juices.
