COVID-19 updates for Aug. 29-Sept. 4, 2022

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, in accordance with the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Setting.

Click here for the newest 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 Setting.

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

Newest updates:

Monday, Aug. 29

4:44 p.m. | Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations projected to continue decreasing into October, latest modeling shows

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 in Colorado are projected to proceed reducing properly into mid-October, however the course of the pandemic after that continues to be unknown and will probably be decided by the subsequent variant of concern, in accordance with the newest modeling report from the Colorado Faculty 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 enhance in transmission as children return to high school.

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

The modeling workforce 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 knowledge

Here is the newest COVID-19 data from the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Setting. A reminder that at this time’s knowledge contains 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 check encounters (+39,388)
13,156 deaths amongst circumstances (+5)
13,880 deaths on account of COVID-19 (+4)
9,623 outbreaks (+0)

The latest hospital data, which the state is now updating solely on Wednesdays, reveals 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 price was 6.31%. The state’s purpose is to stay beneath 5%.

As of Monday, 4,574,992 folks have acquired not 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 price went down by 0.52% from week.

Click here for the COVID-19 dwell weblog for Aug. 22-Aug. 28, 2022