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Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and vice chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, pointed out that even with two doses, Moderna’s vaccine appears to protect children from serious disease. “I think we can expect that it is going to offer higher protection against the more severe outcomes, which is really our ultimate goal,” he said.

Scientists on the governor’s modeling team echoed caution, stressing that the state has allowed business to resume only with social distancing and cleaning. “This is not a complete reopening,” says Elizabeth Carlton, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health and a member of the modeling team.

"It's a question of how we want to manage the risk,” said Jon Samet, who chaired the WHO's working group on its International Agency for Research on Cancer, and is now the dean of the University of Colorado’s School of Public Health. “Are we going to be precautionary — which would be, you stop the technology or you minimize human contact with it — or not?”

Texas: Two-thirds of low-income moms unable to access contraception. That's according to a study by Kate Coleman-Minahan, PhD, RN, of the University of Colorado College of Nursing in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, which also found that only 11 percent of women who wanted long-acting contraception (such as the contraceptive implant) were able to get it at their six-week postpartum checkup. Nearly 60 percent of women left their initial postpartum checkup with no contraception at all, POLITICO's Renuka Rayasam reports.

“I am fearful that the people who are appointed will be in line with the current philosophy of the administration,” said Lucy Bradley-Springer, associate professor of the University of Colorado Denver’s Division of Infectious Diseases and one of the advisory council members who resigned this summer. “In my mind that will mean a decrease in funding for important services, fewer people getting tested, and more people going without care.”

It’s no longer true “that you’re a sole cowboy out there, saving the patient on your own,” says Mark Earnest, head of internal medicine at the University of Colorado medical school.