COVID-19 updates for Aug. 15-Aug. 21, 2022

Greater than 1,613,400 individuals in Colorado have examined constructive for COVID-19 and greater than 67,000 have been hospitalized as of Sunday, in keeping with the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Atmosphere.

Click here for the newest replace on the variety of instances, the age, gender and placement of presumptive constructive, indeterminate and confirmed instances from the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Atmosphere.

Beneath, we’re updating this weblog with the newest info relating to COVID-19 in Colorado.

Newest updates:

Monday, Aug. 15

2:11 p.m. | CDPHE to replace vaccine breakthrough knowledge dashboard

The Colorado Division of Public Well being and Atmosphere (CDPHE) says it should replace it is vaccine breakthrough knowledge dashboard at present that can replace definitions primarily based on CDC steering, add youngsters ages 5 via 11 to vaccine breakthrough knowledge, improve the state’s demographic knowledge, and shift to a hospitalization-based show to give attention to measures of extreme sickness. State well being officers say it’s making these adjustments to extend the accuracy of vaccine breakthrough knowledge in Colorado.

The updates to the vaccine breakthrough knowledge dashboard embody 4 adjustments. CDPHE will:

• Exclude partially vaccinated instances to align with CDC greatest practices. At the moment, individuals who have obtained at the least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, however haven’t accomplished their complete beneficial vaccine collection, are included within the “unvaccinated” knowledge. As a result of the primary dose of a COVID-19 vaccine begins to supply some early safety, together with partially vaccinated individuals within the “unvaccinated” class causes the speed of sickness amongst unvaccinated individuals to look decrease than it’s.
• Embrace youngsters between the ages of 5 and 11 in future evaluation. Kids on this age group have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines lengthy sufficient to contribute to knowledge on vaccine breakthrough.
• Use the Colorado Immunization Data System (CIIS) to replace race and/or ethnicity knowledge when it’s in any other case unavailable. CDPHE routinely matches case knowledge to CIIS knowledge for the aim of assessing breakthrough an infection. Going ahead, CDPHE can even use the race and ethnicity knowledge current in CIIS when it’s in any other case not obtainable. This info will enhance the proportion of instances with race and/or ethnicity knowledge by roughly 30%, resulting in extra correct vaccine breakthrough charges.
• Replace the demographics part to show hospitalization knowledge relatively than case knowledge. CDPHE is altering this metric to be in step with different diseases as a part of the state’s transition to the following part of the general public well being response to COVID-19, specializing in measures of extreme sickness akin to hospitalizations. These measures greatest seize the potential pressure COVID-19 might place on Colorado’s well being care system and align with CDPHE’s knowledge on different diseases.

Click here for the COVID-19 dwell weblog for Aug. 8-Aug. 14, 2022.