Colorado public health experts monitoring increase in COVID-19 cases in the Northeast

Still, Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says a potential increase in cases remains important. “At the end of the day, the goal still should be to try and protect yourself from getting any of these strains and not just be completely dismissive or fatalistic that, ‘I’m going to get it anyway, so might as well get it over with,’” said Barron.