Greater than 1,600,900 folks in Colorado have examined constructive for COVID-19 and greater than 67,800 have been hospitalized as of Monday, based on the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Surroundings.

Click on right here for the most recent replace on the variety of circumstances, the age, gender and placement of presumptive constructive, indeterminate and confirmed circumstances from the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Surroundings.

Under, we’re updating this weblog with the most recent data concerning COVID-19 in Colorado.

Newest updates:

Monday, Aug. 29

4:44 p.m. | Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations projected to proceed reducing into October, newest modeling exhibits

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 in Colorado are projected to proceed reducing nicely into mid-October, however the course of the pandemic after that is still unknown and shall be decided by the subsequent variant of concern, based on the most recent modeling report from the Colorado College of Public Well being.

Hospitalizations for the illness, which stand at 184 as of Aug. 23, are projected to lower to about 100 by mid-October, regardless of a possible improve in transmission as youngsters return to highschool.

Roughly 1 in 162 folks have been infectious with SARS-CoV-2 as of Aug. 16, the modeling group wrote, down from their earlier estimate of 1 in 108 in mid-Could.

The modeling group stated it’s monitoring two rising variants, each belonging to the omicron household: BA.4.6, which makes up 7.5% of all circumstances within the U.S. as of Aug. 27, and BA.2.75, which is 13% extra transmissible than the already record-breaking BA.5, and which can have as a lot immune escape as BA.5 or extra.

It is unclear whether or not both of those two sublineages will displace BA.5 in Colorado, the modelers wrote.

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4 p.m. | Newest coronavirus information

Here is the most recent COVID-19 information from the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Surroundings. A reminder that at this time’s information consists of numbers from the weekend in addition to Monday.

1,628,992 circumstances (+1,986)
67,863 hospitalized (+51)
64 counties (+0)
5,073,891 folks examined (+3,449)
19,832,091 take a look at encounters (+39,388)
13,156 deaths amongst circumstances (+5)
13,880 deaths as a consequence of COVID-19 (+4)
9,623 outbreaks (+0)

The newest hospital information, which the state is now updating solely on Wednesdays, exhibits 184 beds in use by sufferers with confirmed circumstances of COVID-19, 52 fewer than per week in the past. Colorado’s seven-day common positivity fee was 6.31%. The state’s aim is to stay under 5%.

As of Monday, 4,574,992 folks have obtained no less than one dose of the vaccine in Colorado and 4,115,612 have been totally vaccinated.

9 a.m. | Colorado’s COVID-19 standing as we begin the week

Colorado reported a complete of 6,599 circumstances of the novel coronavirus for the week ending Aug. 26, down 365 from final week – a 5.24% lower. The state’s positivity fee went down by 0.52% from week.

Click on right here for the COVID-19 stay weblog for Aug. 22-Aug. 28, 2022