Tag: Rachel Herlihy
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Long COVID affects about one in 10 Coloradans, report finds
For some, a COVID-19 infection is a bad gift that keeps giving. It’s a medical condition called by many names: Long COVID, long-haul COVID and chronic COVID, among others. Broadly speaking, Long COVID is defined has having symptoms that continue — sometimes for months and years — after a COVID-19 infection. The Office of Saving…
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Colorado reports first West Nile virus death of 2023
A Weld County resident is the first Coloradan to die from West Nile virus this year, state health officials confirmed Friday. Colorado has had 12 confirmed human cases of West Nile virus across eight counties this year, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said. Although the numbers may seem relatively small, cases are…
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$1.6 million payday for Polis friends: Free deal to help Colorado’s COVID-19 response ends up costing taxpayers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado paid more than $630,000 last year to a group of personal and business associates of Gov. Jared Polis that had ostensibly volunteered to help the state manage its way through the COVID-19 pandemic by tracking people’s movements, records show. Then, when that group’s work…
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Colorado’s troubled partnership with California COVID-19 testing firm
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado paid more than $89.2 million to a coronavirus testing provider run by an ambitious 25-year-old entrepreneurial college dropout in California. But state officials abruptly severed ties with the company after federal regulators warned that those officials allowed improper use of the test in nursing…
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Colorado had America’s highest nursing home coronavirus death rate at end of 2020
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis a year ago pledged an aggressive approach to tamp down surging coronavirus cases in the state’s nursing homes, calling on the Colorado National Guard to help with testing for the virus at…
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Six months in, Colorado officials urge patience, diligence as state awaits COVID-19 vaccine
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The rumors were swirling in early February that the Department of Defense had tapped the Colorado Army National Guard’s facility on Fort Carson to potentially quarantine Americans fleeing Huebi province in China, the center of…