Thread of a few observations from Colorado's 4 p.m. data dump. On the dashboard, Boulder and Logan counties are still in red, when looking at the number of cases. Only Yuma County is in orange, which is an improvement over yesterday. https://covid19.colorado.gov/data/covid-19-dial/covid-19-dial-dashboard

Only four counties have more than 5% of tests coming back positive: Adams, Jackson, Logan and Washington. Ideally everybody would be below 5%, but it could be much worse.

The stable or declining hospitalizations metric is weird, because your county is green if hospitalizations have been going down for 8 or more days, and red if they've been going down 7 days or less (or going up).

Adams County is the only one in red, but hospitalizations have been stable or going down for seven days there.

Speaking of hospitalizations, no sign of a big spike yet, but those do lag behind cases, so we're not out of the woods. https://covid19.colorado.gov/data 

About 3.3% of tests are coming back positive statewide. Higher than a couple weeks ago, but within the range experts consider acceptable. Anything above 5% could be a sign they're not doing enough testing and missing cases.

And while there's day-to-day variation on cases, the pattern is unfortunately pretty clear. Two weeks ago, we were averaging 244 cases per day. Today, it was about 501. Not great.

As state officials noted at the press conference today, the biggest increase is in 18-25-year-olds, who are at lower risk of serious complications (though the risk isn't zero).

But young people aren't isolated from the rest of society, and older people's cases are rising too. And that's a big problem. So be careful out there! End of thread.