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The dust is just starting to settle in the aftermath of Colorado’s legislative session. Lawmakers were frantically working Wednesday night to pass dozens of bills just minutes before a midnight deadline. But not everything got through. Here are some of the highlights from the final weeks of Colorado’s legislative session.
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COVID-19 can be a very dangerous virus for pregnant women who have not been vaccinated against it. Unvaccinated pregnant women are at especially high risk of severe complications, which can affect both the mother and her unborn child. Experts say the vaccine is completely safe to take, but here in Montezuma County, vaccination rates among pregnant women remain low.
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Colorado Governor Jared Polis says the state is moving to a new, less restrictive phase of the pandemic response because of rapidly dropping case numbers. And the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District is holding a special board meeting on Tuesday with only one action item on the agenda: to appoint an interim superintendent for the school district.
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Southwest Health System in Cortez will discontinue drive-thru COVID-19 testing, and the hospital's director of infection control says COVID hospitalizations are down and vaccination rates are up in Montezuma County. But he also says the pandemic isn't over, and warns against rolling back precautions too soon. KSJD's Lucas Brady Woods sat down with Meyer to talk through the details.
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Montezuma County Commissioner Joel Stevenson has died, after a weeks’ long battle with COVID-19. And it’s taken less than a week for Colorado lawmakers to start engaging in some of the first shouting matches of their new legislative session.
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For the last few weeks, Southwest Colorado has been experiencing one of the worst surges of COVID-19 so far in the pandemic. While that sounds bad, there is some good news in Montezuma County about rising vaccination rates and, maybe, a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. In this week’s Health & Prevention Report, KSJD’s Lucas Brady Woods gets the latest on the local pandemic situation from Marc Meyer, SHS’s head of infection control and pharmacy services.
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Coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations continue to rise in Colorado and across the region; Authorities in the Navajo Nation have issued a health advisory saying that there is uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 in dozens of Navajo communities.
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Manaugh Elementary School in Cortez has stopped in-person learning till September 7th due to a surge in COVID-19 infections; The Colorado Department of Agriculture is seeking information for an agricultural loan program; School started this week for the inaugural classes of kindergarteners and 1st graders at Kwiyagat Community Academy in Towaoc.
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At an emergency meeting on Tuesday, the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School Board voted five to two against a mask mandate in the district's schools.
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The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School Board held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to consider a mask mandate for the district’s schools after COVID-19 infections were found in at least six of the district’s schools last week; Colorado Governor Jared Polis is pleading with parents upset with mask policies at their schools NOT to resort to threats or violence over the issue during the pandemic.