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Colorado is experiencing another uptick in coronavirus cases. And a new Office of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives will be housed in the Colorado Department of Public Safety.
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COVID-19 cases are increasing once again in Southwest Colorado, but the spread is different this time around. For one, the cases are more difficult to track. But people here in Montezuma County are still getting sick, and dying.
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The masks are coming off on public transit around the Roaring Fork Valley. KDNK's Morgan Neely has more.
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Elizabeth Reiter’s family was not by her side on Mother’s Day in 2020, when she was fighting pneumonia and a blood infection in a Denver hospital. The coronavirus pandemic was just starting to rage, and hospitals were keeping visitors out to limit the spread of the virus.
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At one point earlier this month, Teton County, Wyoming, had the highest COVID-19 case rate per capita in the country. Many other Western mountain towns were also at the forefront of the Omicron surge in our region, but hospitalizations and deaths have so far remained low in the resort communities. Will Walkey from KHOL in Jackson Hole reports.
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In the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District, superintendent Risha VanderWey has been placed on administrative leave by the school board, and COVID-19 contact tracing has been suspended.
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Communities across the US are experiencing surges of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. But the Omicron wave is only starting to pick up momentum here in Southwest Colorado, where about 60% of the population is vaccinated, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. To get details on the situation, KSJD's Lucas Brady Woods spoke to Mark Meyer, head of infection control at Southwest Health System, who says severe COVID infections are concentrated among the unvaccinated.