#Covid19colorado

NEW: @GovofCO Polis’ guest speaker for today’s briefing is state epidemiologist Dr Rachel Herlihy, suggesting they will directly address new state modeling calling for significant social distancing through the end

NEW: Colorado estimates 1.1-1.3% of the popoulation has had COVID-19 (65,000-75,000 people). The state has passed 10k confirmed cases and has 444 known deaths. CDPHE is giving a briefing. I’ll

Before and after law enforcement cleared the beach at Cherry Creek State Park today. #9News #COVID19Colorado Clearing up a couple things for the beach-clearing truthers:1) I did not call police2)

NEW: @GovofCO Polis starts a briefing for journalists by urging people not to misinterpret coming increase in COVID-19 deaths as a spike when it’s a reclassification or non-COVID deaths. Will

Awaiting briefing from @GovofCO Polis (scheduled for 1:30) where reporters will be asking about restraueant reopening plan & state modeling calling for long-term social distancing restrictions. Will thread details and

NEW: Weld County will allow ALL business to reopen Monday in defiance of @GovofCO Polis’ executive orders. Weld County leaders have unveiled a “Safer At Work” plan in a rebuke

NEW: The City of Denver says both the downtown Hyatt (on land owned by the city) and the DIA Westin (at the city-owned airport) have declined to help house people

Chris Vanderveen

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THURS #COVID19Colorado updateHeadline: Seeing some (ideally not brief) stabilization. Patient count stops short-term growth. So that's not bad. Also, positivity and case growth stalls. Let's see if it lastsHOSPITALIZATIONScovid+ ONL

Pearce Korb MD, MHPE, FAAN

The Science of Reopening with #COVID is important to me because a) I'm a scientist b) I'm a working doctor & c) I don't want people to get sick or

Chris Vanderveen

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FRIDAY #COVID19Colorado updateHeadline: Testing back up (good), positivity flat (good), hospitalizations flat (good) HOSPITALIZATIONS: COVID+ onlyToday: 142 (+1 from yesterday)Last week: 132(PUI & COVID+ = 232 -- DOWN 8 from

.@GovofCO tells me that lifting the stay at home order April 26 will depend partly on how much testing CO achieves. "It's going to need to be a lot more

Chris Vanderveen

chrisvanderveen

TUESDAY #COVID19Colorado UpdateHeadline: "Ok. Let's all take a breath now. Been a big day." HOSPITALIZATIONS(covid+ ONLY) Today: 538 (up 25 from yesterday) Last week: 417#9news POSITIVITY Nearing that 7%... At

NEW: @GovofCO Polis says Colorado has passed 300 deaths from COVID-19 (304). I'll thread details his briefing here. #9NEWS #covid19colorado Polis says Colorado will now be reporting racial data on

After going through our @9WantsToKnow healthcare worker survey https://bit.ly/2JzX1M8 I'm frightened by the number of workers afraid to speak out over fear of losing their jobs. Many say they have

JUST IN: @GovofCO has released guidance on what can and cannot open Monday, along with a new 'Safer at Home' executive order.Under the new executive order, individual counties are allowed

NEW: Public health officials are visiting the Cargill meatpacking plant in Fort Morgan today. Teamsters Local 455 head Steve Vairma says one employee is believed to have died from COVID-19