Tag: Scott Bookman
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Rocked by deadly pandemic, Colorado public health faces needed rebuild
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado public health officials vaulted to prominence three years ago when residents started to sicken and die of COVID-19, kicking off a pandemic that would spark fierce, even violent political debate and offer clear lessons for the future. At the outset, the outpouring of response…
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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…