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@CDPHE confirms variant first identified in India (B1617) has been found in Colorado.

Handful of cases found in Mesa County

More info on CDPHE weekly update to follow

#9news
11-17 age range showing highest case count right now

(look at how 18+ has dipped)
I'll call this slide from @CDPHE...

vaccine works
I'll call this slide...

Decrease in demand
Good to hear from a doc on easing any fears of vaccine and pregnancy

Dr. Klein says she recommends to her patients that they get the vaccine
More on B1617 variant

Five cases in Mesa County

No immediate history of travel
I asked Dr. Herlihy about the variant

Variant shares some mutations with others

Believes it could be more transmissible. Minimal data on vaccine effectiveness. But the data we do have suggests vaccine still works...

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6 May
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 Image
POSITIVITY

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

Headed in right direction Image
Read 7 tweets
5 May
WEDNESDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Stop me if you've heard this one before. Cases/positivity down. Hospitalizations up...again (ugh).

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY

Today: 666 (up 27)
Last week: 634

(that's a sizeable one-day jump)

#9news
POSITIVITY

Daily count in the 4s (that's good)... weekly count 5.6%

Down for the week
CASES

Below 1400. And still headed down
Read 5 tweets
4 May
TUESDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Y'all still out there? Still readin this thing? Welp, if you are, hospitalizations -- yeah those -- went up by a smidge again.

HOSPITALIZATONS
covid+ ONLY

Today: 639 (up 8)
Last week: 622

Now at 4th wave max

#9news Image
POSITIVITY

closer to mid 5s now. Down again.

(but got a feelin it'll head up a bit based on 3 day average soon) Image
CASES

Below 1500... so that's good Image
Read 5 tweets
4 May
THREAD (about my big day)

Today, I'm happy to say I'm fully vaccinated after receiving my second dose of the Moderna vaccine two weeks ago...

But here's the thing... Vaccines, IMHO, aren't just for the person getting the vaccine.

So let me walk you through why I did this

1/
I did it, in part, for my 11 year old daughter. She and her classmates remain largely unprotected from the virus.

She wants to stay in school. And did not like remote learning.

My vaccine helps keep her and them in the classroom.

2/
I also did it for my mother.

She's fully vaccinated. And now so am I.

She wants to go gambling this weekend in Black Hawk.

I'm taking her.

It's much better than the backyard, often frigid, visits we did for months.

My vaccine allows her to get out of her home.

3/
Read 11 tweets
28 Apr
THREAD

This a plea to journalists.

When someone dies under a pile of officers, the death is NOT an isolated event.

And there are many more deaths than just the death of George Floyd.

Let's start with 4/19/21 death of #MarioGonzalez

Body camera released yesterday

1/
Gonzalez was held prone (on stomach) and handcuffed for multiple minutes before he stopped breathing

Happened in Alameda, CA, day before George Floyd verdict.

It's generated quite a few stories now that body cam is out

2/
usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
It's natural for people to see this and instantly think of Floyd

But here's the thing,

Our ongoing #PRONE investigation has found dozens of other deaths just like the deaths of Floyd and Gonzalez

How many?

My list now has 118 names. People like Roy Nelson. Died in 2015

3/
Read 18 tweets
27 Apr
TUESDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Hospitalizations still slowly headed up. Positivity above 6%. Thirty percent of state fully vaccinated

HOSPITALIZATIONS
covid+ ONLY

Today: 622 (up 16)
Last week: 553

#9news
POSITIVITY

Above 6
CASES

above 1600

(no clear sign we've hit peak yet)
Read 6 tweets

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