Colorado Hospitals Join Study On Convalescent Plasma As Coronavirus Treatment
Colorado hospitals are joining a national study to determine if plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients, can help the most critical.
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Colorado hospitals are joining a national study to determine if plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients, can help the most critical.
UCHealth says 40% fewer people are in the emergency department compared to this time last year.
So far in Colorado, more than 67,000 people have been tested for coronavirus, or about 1% of the population. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment wants to increase that number.
The Food and Drug Administration identifies convalescent plasma as an investigational treatment for patients with coronavirus.
Members of the Colorado National Guard have been helping with coronavirus testing in Weld County.
The funding will help enhance coronavirus epidemiological work and lab testing.
The Ronald McDonald House in Denver got a deep cleaning free of charge thanks to 10 companies with the Professional Association of Cleaning and Restoration.
Centura Health is helping police, firefighters and other first responders during the coronavirus pandemic. The hospital system donated more than 2,000 plastic ponchos to 21 different departments in Colorado.
Colorado State University researchers are helping run coronavirus tests for people without symptoms, or who are asymptomatic. One of CSU's labs has run nearly 500 tests from health care workers in Colorado.
King Soopers is helping more people get tested for coronavirus by offering free drive-up testing at the Auraria Campus this week.
A Colorado psychologist says it's important for people to be aware of the crisis they may be going through inside and "give themselves permission to feel that loss."
As plans to keep Coloradans "safer at home" are put into place amid the coronavirus pandemic, one family hopes that by sharing their experience, people will proceed with caution.
After a month of no business for elective procedures, on Monday many Colorado establishments reopened and started treating patients again.
Monday, a ban on elective surgeries was lifted as part of Gov. Jared Polis' Safer at Home phase of the Colorado response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Denver Health Medical Center CEO Robin Wittenstein on Monday apologized to the hospital's 7,000 employees for the timing of incentive bonuses that were handed out to executives and managers
