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2024 duPont-Columbia Award winner | 2022 Peabody Award winner | 4x @NPPA Reporter of the Year | @9News Director of Special Projects | investigates@9news.com

May 6, 2021, 7 tweets

THURSDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: It ain't much. But all three metrics went down today. So... I'll take it... And yeah, that includes hospitalizations

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY

Today: 661 (down 5)
Last week: 628

#9news

POSITIVITY

7-day below 5.5!
(only deserves one !)

CASES

Headed in right direction

VACCINE

TWO MILLION Coloradans fully vaccinated! Woohoo!

35.1% of state (essentially) FULLY vaccinated

(Yes... I use total population... not just those eligible)

One more thing

Colorado's case counts are ELEVATED when compared to rest of US.

In fact, according to NYT we're tied for 2nd highest count in US

(h/t to @AnnaHewson1 for pointing this out)

What does it mean?

Colorado has YET to show the sustained decline the rest of the country has.

Our case counts are about a THIRD of Nov peak, but we're still elevated.

It all makes Colorado an outlier.

Our hospitalizations aren't going down much

and our cases remain high

I'm curious a to the reasons why.

But won't offer any thoughts right now

Anyhoo... take care. And let's see what tomorrow brings

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