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Chris Vanderveen

3 Feb, 8 tweets, 3 min read

WEDNESDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Numbers are settling into a sustained decline again.

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY:

Today: 521 (down 8)
Last week: 662

#9news

POSITIVITY (red line)

Now in mid 4s! (7 day)

(the daily number was 3.61%... that's CRAZY low)

(sorry for the indulgent and potentially improper use of the word CRAZY)

CASES

You can see the rate of decline has slowed -- just a bit -- in last 2 weeks... but still goin down

VACCINE

8.1% of CO population has received ONE dose

2.6% of CO population has received TWO doses

ALSO... look at difference in female v male

and still high % of unknown race. (that number is going down tho as it's now routine to collect that info)

What's it all mean?

Still holding in a good spot... everything still headed down...

We've also now vaccinated big chunk of the 70+ population (w/at least one shot) so that will start to really show up in case data and hospitalization data too (with even lower counts)

Bottom line...

Based on where we were in mid-December... this is, IMHO, a near best-case scenario... no big holiday spike... continual decline...

Is it over? Heck no.

But I'll take it...

As always.... Take care... Be smart... And as "not dumb" as is humanly possible.

IDIOT ME

Messed up my math

8.4% ONE dose

this is how all corrections should be done moving forward

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@GovofCO announces BIG changes to metrics for Colorado's #COVID19 dial frame.

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Hey yall

it's a Friday cornucopia of news today...

right now... @GovofCO giving us an update on the dial system...

this will be important for businesses around the state..

details below

#COVID19colorado

Governor Polis notes a pretty sizeable uptick in daily case counts...

around 1800 today...

that's significant... but also could be result of increased testing.

also have now given more than a half million Coloradans at least one dose of COVID vaccine

(that's good news)

Governor starts off dial talk by noting "breaching hospital capacity" is critical...

(Why I always say HOSPITALIZATIONS are among the most critical metrics)

We have not breached it. So today we get Dial 2.0

"it's a more responsive dial"

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@jennifermeckles

THREAD

Wanna walk you through this story @jennifermeckles and I worked on yesterday.

It involves a really nice guy by the name of Michael.

He's in his 70s. Eligible for the vaccine in Colorado. He actually got an appointment for a shot...

There was just one problem...

That appointment was abruptly canceled when a billing person with the medical provider learned he owed $243.85 for a previous and unrelated appointment.

He is a cancer patient. He needs this shot.

Instead, he got this email from a Boulder Medical Center patient account rep

Michael was miffed. So was his partner. She contacted us to see if this was right.

In essence, she thought, a medical provider was holding a vaccine in the middle of a pandemic as ransom...

Sure did seem that way. So we headed up to Longmont for an interview.

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4 Feb

THURSDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Welp. Small blip in hospitalizations. Prob just a one-day thing. Everything else lookin' good

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY

Today: 538 (up 17)
Last week: 644

(*Let's see what happens tomorrow)

#9news

POSITIVITY

holding in mid 4s... down a smidge today

CASES

Still headed down

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Chris Vanderveen

@chrisvanderveen

2 Feb

TUESDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Let's be brief. All metrics down. Again.

Hospitalizations
COVID+ ONLY

Today: 529 (down 27)
Last week: 674

(rate of decrease is increasing again... if that makes sense)

#9news

POSITIVITY

Still below 5%. Dropped again

CASES

Seeing less than a fourth of the case counts we saw in Nov.

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THREAD

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To review, we have found at least 107 deaths of people who died shortly after being held facedown and handcuffed.

Here are 100 of their faces.

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1/

Like many investigations, this one started with another.

Last year, I started looking into the 2018 death of David Baker.

Baker, a Navy veteran, died shortly after several Aurora police officers pinned him to the ground after a violent confrontation.

2/

According to the coroner's report, Baker died of "restraint asphyxia"

He died, in essence, because he couldn't breathe enough air in and out of his body.

3/

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