“Fifteen thousand deaths is just terrible and it kind of forces us to reflect on what's happened,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary care physician at Denver Health [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], and member of the Colorado Vaccine Equity Taskforce.
“It doesn't take away from those that we lost for sure,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “But it could have been so much worse if we didn't have the tools that we had.”