29.03.2024

5 Cases Of Variant Confirmed, Evidence Of Community Spread Discovered

Polis was joined by Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman at the Aurora Municipal Center’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic site, one of nine community vaccination clinics in the state where no appointment is necessary to get a vaccine. He said it’s vital that people get COVID boosters to get protection against omicron.

“There is increased urgency to get the third vaccine, because from the preliminary data that has been presented to me, having three vaccines is absolutely critical to the high level of protection against the omicron variant,” Polis said.

Gov. Jared Polis said on Thursday that there are now five confirmed cases of the omicron variant in Colorado. He led a news conference in Aurora in the morning and said health officials have identified community spread of the variant.

Of all the U.S. states, Colorado is currently ninth in the country in percentage of the population that has been boosted against COVID-19.

“But our whole country is lagging behind other countries in getting people successfully boosted,” Polis said.

The confirmed omicron cases are in the following counties: Arapahoe County (2), Boulder, Jefferson and Garfield.

The number of hospitalizations in Colorado due to COVID has dropped.

That number fell to 1,227 on Wednesday — down 43 from Tuesday. But 86% of those in the hospital with COVID are not vaccinated.

Heroic High Country Nurse Saves Baby 1 Week After Learning Specific Training

A nurse in Colorado’s high country had just been trained on how to deal with saving a baby’s life just a week before she put her knowledge to practice. Jessica Little said her confidence in the moment was absolute.

Little works with Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs.

“I ran back to the bedside and found the pediatrician and nurse that were on resuscitating a baby and I jumped in,” Little explained.

What to do next to save the baby was fresh in her mind because she had just finished training with Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Aspen on the same medical emergency.

Some mountain hospitals, while full of qualified medical professionals, don’t always have the resources cities, like Denver, have.

That’s why larger medical groups help train staff.

“It’s harder for more rural facilities when they don’t have the patient volumes and things that start to keep up on their skills,” Catherine Steinbach-Payne explained.

She works as a clinical education specialist for our outreach team at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. She’s the one who was teaching Little the week before she put her training into action.

Steinbach-Payne told CBS4’s Spencer Wilson it’s because of the gap in resources they are focusing on helping train medical providers with the latest techniques and improve care.

Little said that day had a happy ending, the baby was flown to a Denver hospital and was able to make a recovery and go home with their family eventually. She said it was all a part of a day in her life, helped by her team at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs.

“I don’t think I would use the word hero. I was just a part of a team that we did our job and we did it to the best of our ability.”

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