Thread by @chrisvanderveen

TUESDAY @COVID19Colorado update

Headline: Colorado jumps past 1400 patients. Cases still headed up. Worst of the wave remains yet to come.

HOSPITALIZATIONS
today: 1426 (up 32)
last week: 1254

(***this is speeding up again)

#9news

CASES

Above 2800

Still going in wrong direction

POSITIVITY

Still too damn close to 10

ICU beds

101 available

What's it all mean?

We are still very much in the thick of this.

Parkview Hospital, in Pueblo, has more patients than any CO hospital right now (more than 90)

This is stretching our system in ways not yet seen during the pandemic.

Bottom line...

Vaccines work, yes, but it's also time to have a much more serious talk about boosters

65+ crowd was vaccinated, in large part, 6+ months ago

They need boosters asap. (thankfully most are pro-vaccine)

This remains a very dangerous virus for older population

I'm gonna end... with what I'm likely to end with for a little while now

Health care workers are spent.

You cheered them on early last year.

Don't treat them like sh-t now.

They're still trying to help you. Even when you're a jerk to them.

Take care yall.