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4 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
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
VACCINE

8.5% of CO population has received ONE dose

2.8% of CO population has received TWO doses
What's it all mean?

Chances are good the hospital increase is a one-day blip (one day does not a trend make)... but will watch to see if it dips tomorrow

Positivity has settled nicely. Cases still dropping. So that's good

As always... take care... Be smart... U know the rest

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Chris Vanderveen Profile picture
5 Feb
JUST IN

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

Changes go into effect tomorrow at 9am

#9news Image
Here's where states are now Image
This is where states can go under new metrics

(BIG) Image
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Chris Vanderveen Profile picture
5 Feb
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"
Read 5 tweets
Chris Vanderveen Profile picture
5 Feb
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... Image
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 Image
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. Image
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3 Feb
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
Read 8 tweets
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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 Image
POSITIVITY

Still below 5%. Dropped again Image
CASES

Seeing less than a fourth of the case counts we saw in Nov. Image
Read 5 tweets
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11 Nov 20
THREAD

I'd like to walk you through the process we've gone through for our investigation #PRONE

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.

#9news
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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/ Image
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/ Image
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