As of Tuesday afternoon, 320 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Colorado, an increase of 218 at this time last week
“The collaboration between our hospitals and health systems will be one of the keys to addressing this triple-demic we face,” Jeff Tieman, president and CEO of the Colorado Hospital Association, said in a news release. “We are again at a point where we need Coloradans to do their part to help our health care system.”
It’s “critically important” that people who have respiratory symptoms stay home, even if they think they just have a cold, Herlihy said. Masks also are highly effective in reducing your odds of contracting respiratory viruses, which helps preserve hospital capacity, she said. Ten wastewater systems showed increasing virus concentrations, while none showed decreases. The rest either held steady or didn’t have recent data.released projections that the country could have a wave that’s similar to what it saw over the summer, said Beth Carlton, an associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health.
In contrast, all but 10 counties had high or substantial transmission, based on cases and the percentage of tests coming back positive,Part of the increase in COVID-19 transmission probably comes from people moving their gatherings indoors, Herlihy said. The proliferation of new variants is likely also a factor, she said.
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