Health

Colorado’s COVID death toll is now over 10,000.

Other metrics offer more reasons for optimism.

Bill Lee has been in the hospital for weeks.

The numbers are up from last week.

Most of the school-board members at the meeting were unmasked.

The variant was detected by the wastewater surveillance system.

Totals are up in almost every major category.

Most employees at kiosks were bare-faced.

There’s a wide disparity between deaths with or from the disease.

The first person infected recently traveled to Africa.

Dozens upon dozens of locations have had multiple outbreaks.

Complaints have been coming in to local health departments.

Concerns about a possible holiday-season spike linger.

The question when it comes to Omicron isn’t if but when.

The number of retail outbreaks is growing, too.

A variety of explanations have been trotted out.

Polis faced questions he seemingly wanted to avoid.

The hospital system is said to be teetering on the brink.

Other statistics continue on a concerning trajectory.

The orders have exemptions and exceptions.

The county total is higher than this time last year.

“This is still an emergency,” Polis stressed.