Larimer County is now high-risk for COVID-19, according to the CDC. Here’s what that means.

Coronavirus-related hospitalizations have been steadily climbing for a few weeks, said Michelle Barron, UCHealth’s senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. But thankfully, Barron said, this wave is not nearly as bad as the last wave the county experienced in December and January.