The COVID-19 trends in Colorado have improved this month, and they look even better today than they did a week ago. Even as the total number of infections in the state exceeds 50,000, the daily caseload remains less and hospitalizations are generally stable.
Since August 6, four days ago, no death has been officially attributed to the novel coronavirus; the total for August so far is five, according to the Colorado Department of Health and Public Environment.
Here is the main category COVID-19 data for Colorado, updated at 3 a.m. on August 9:
50,660 Files
6,616 Hospital
63 Counties
588,547 People testing
513 Outbreak
1,858 deaths among cases
1,736 Deaths due to COVID-19
As for new daily cases, the total of 338 on August 8 marks a decline of more than 34 percent since the peak over the last ten-day period:
August 8 – 33
7 – 37 August
August 6 – 4
5 – 466 August
4 – 423 August
3 – 386 August
August 2 – 4
1 – 514 August
31 – 5 July
July 30 – 480
Another excellent sign: the positivity rate for cases, which two weeks ago was around 5 percent per 100,000 cases, a figure that was considered a reason among health officials two weeks ago, now stands at 2.84 percent. That percentage approaches the lowest positive number recorded in the state since the pandemic began more than five months ago: 2.31 percent on June 15.
However, hospitalizations – a staggering statistic because the normal infection follows up to two weeks – have not seen a similar road, and have actually gone up since 7 August. But the numbers are generally fairly stable from July 31 to August 9:
9 – 226 August
August 8 – 231
7 – 201 August
August 6 – 20
5 – 203 August
4 – 20 August
3 – 209 August
2 – 221 August
1 – 218 August
31 – 23 July
The greatest progress is seen in the reduction of deaths. According to the CDPHE, the highest daily number, 37 deaths, was counted on each of three days: April 9, April 13 and April 22. In contrast, the highest number this month was three on August 3rd. These stats could change, since reporting from some of the more remote counties in Colorado may be delayed. But for now, they represent hope.
Here are the last ten days that a virus death has been confirmed, a total of forty since July 25:
August 6 – 1
August 3 – 3
1 – 1 August
31 – 3 July
July 30 – 6
29 – 3 July
28 – 9 July
July 27 – 6
26 – 3 July
July 25 – 5
These upswings are not without risks – and CDPHE officials have repeatedly warned about the dangers of COVID-19 self-immolation, as the virus is still circulating in the state and many schools and colleges in the near future. time may open for instruction on-site weeks. As the degree of infection increases as people gather again, the current situation may come to be considered as the rest for the storm.
In the meantime, the news has been so good that Governor Jared Polis, who had reduced his COVID-19 news conferences from two a week to one in a previous downturn, only to return to the previous schedule, quietly his second update left skip week. And his appearance on CNN with host Chris Cuomo on August 6 focused not on spiky COVID-19 rates, but on mail-in voting, which has been a success in this state.
On a similar issue, the Polis office announced that it had amended and extended an Executive Order on August 8 regarding the restriction of personal contact for the 2020 elections and the Secretary of State’s operations due to the presence of COVID-19 in the state. “The next day, Polis signed one order” extending relief to customers of public utilities to reduce, respond to and recover from the current economic downturn due to the presence of COVID-19 in Colorado “and another that a previous edict expands “and county boards provide commissioners with broader discretion and greater flexibility to implement restrictions on open burning,” pointing to another problem in Colorado: drought.
And today, Aug. 10, Polis will be on hand at two community testing websites – the first at Aurora Sports Park, the second at the closed-for-the-season Water World in Adams County; Polis will finally test for COVID-19. The meetings, scheduled for 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., can be viewed live on the governor’s Facebook page.
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