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Glacier National Park has re-instituted a mask mandate inside federal buildings, like visitor centers. Officials there say they’re following National Park Service and Interior Department guidance. That is, when the CDC reports a high level of COVID-19 community spread around a park, officials re-institute an indoor mask mandate. Other national parks could bring back mask requirements, too, if rates increase around the West.
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State-run psychiatric hospitals have dozens of people coming in and then leaving days, weeks or months later. Surprisingly, most of these facilities in the Mountain West reported having far fewer COVID outbreaks and deaths than other group facilities.
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COVID-19 cases are increasing in most of the country, but it’s hard to say how much. That's due to at-home tests and vaccines, which mean fewer people need to go to a doctor for a diagnoses or aid. These are good signs, but they also make it hard to track the virus, which can be stressful for people who are immunocompromised or can’t get the vaccine.
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Driven by a pair of super-transmissible omicron sub variants, more people are catching COVID-19, and key coronavirus trends are heading in the wrong direction in Colorado. But immunity from vaccinations and previous infections will help the state weather the wave.
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State officials are trying to understand how the emergence of a new variant — omicron BA.2.12.1 — will impact the trajectory of infections.
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The latest numbers show the state’s positivity rate is up slightly in recent days. Meanwhile, hospitals are busy catching up with elective surgeries that were delayed during recent COVID surges.
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A recent Kaiser Family Foundation Hispanic vaccination rates were only 42% in Idaho and Colorado: tying for the second lowest rate in the country, above South Dakota.
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Julissa Soto has been organizing vaccination clinics in the kinds of places where public health officials often don’t go: Churches, nightclubs and markets.
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Like all Colorado medical facilities, this clinic weathered hit after hit from the pandemic: battling the virus, economic troubles, staffing shortages.