Most mask requirements will end at UCHealth and Denver Health

The system has been monitoring community transmission rates, hospitalization rates, as a surrogate for disease severity, wastewater surveillance for COVID-19, vaccination rates against COVID-19 as well as the trends for RSV and influenza, said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We feel that it is safe to no longer mandate masking,” Barron said.

Denver Health says the move is aligned with other large health care institutions in the region. “Denver Health’s COVID-19 hospitalization and ICU rates are very low, despite community transmission of the virus,” said chief medical officer Connie Savor Price [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Denver Health will continue to monitor this fluid situation.”