Colorado just recorded its lowest number of COVID hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic

“With the current variants, COVID-19 is mostly an outpatient disease for most adults,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary care physician at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], and member of the Colorado Vaccine Equity Taskforce.

“The low hospitalization likely is a reflection of sustained community immunity and again, in general, less severe infection,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] via email.