What exactly is happening with COVID in Colorado?

DENVER (KDVR) — Insurance policies are persevering with to answer a few of the lowest-ever Colorado COVID numbers.

Denver Worldwide Airport’s safety will not implement masking necessities on the airport, marking the primary time for the reason that pandemic began that passengers can fly with uncovered faces. In the meantime, Colorado’s RTD has eradicated masks necessities on all public transit automobiles.

Probably the most related COVID numbers are nonetheless at all-time lows. When the omicron variant was rampant in late 2021 and early 2022, federal and state well being officers mentioned case numbers had been not a dependable gauge of public hazard given the variant’s mildness.

Nationally, COVID instances are close to an all-time low quantity, however they’re gently rising. There are a mean of 35,000 new instances per day, which is up 10,000 from April 1 however nonetheless matching low factors from the summers of 2020 and 2021.

The variety of deaths nationally continues to fall regardless of the slight upward pattern in instances. There have been a mean 373 deaths per day amongst COVID-positive sufferers on April 18, down 170 per day from April 1.

In Colorado, instances have risen 185 per day from a low level in late March. There at the moment are 487 per day, on common.

Hospitalizations haven’t risen in response. The typical variety of COVID-positive sufferers admitted to Colorado hospitals is at an all-time low of 15 per day.

The variety of COVID-positive sufferers in hospital beds, too, is at an all-time low, with 77 such sufferers statewide as of April 12.

Colorado’s deaths from COVID are at their lowest level, as properly. There have been 0.6 deaths per day on common as of April 13.