Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who was on the call, told Xinis he was ready to review more than 1,000 pages of documents over the weekend and arrive at the jail as soon as Tuesday.
Asked about a warning from the Colorado School of Public Health about the threat of a second spike in cases, Polis told Tapper, "Yeah, we're all worried about a potential for a second spike, whether it's in the Fall, along with flu season in September/October, whether it's July."
"We don't have enough tests being done to know how long we need to wait, how long we need to keep the society at the same level as we're at now in terms of closures," said [Lee] Newman, professor of environmental and occupational health and epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health.
“Tests are backlogged until September, all of them,” Colorado School of Public Health at Anschutz professor May Chu said. … “It’s a huge failure,” said Daniel Goldberg, a public health ethicist and associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
By the time Dr. Mercedes Rincon sits down at her computer at 11:30 p.m., she’s already counseled her 93-year-old father, who lives alone in Madrid, about how to stay safe and stave off loneliness amidst the lockdown. She’s already met remotely with graduate students and lab techs overseeing a number of projects at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. And she’s already participated in a virtual conference about arthritis research.
It’s unlike any other ventilator on the market. Thomas Greany, DDS, at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine faculty member designed a ventilator that can support 12 patients at once. “In my entire career, there’s been nothing more gratifying than the work that I’ve been involved with over the past four weeks,” Greany says.
Op-ed from Emmy Betz, emergency physician and researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: I live and work in Colorado, a beautiful state that can look to an outsider like a year-round playground of sunshine and skiing. But my state has a big problem: suicide rates that are among the highest in the country.
Dr. Jeffrey Wallace, a gerontologist with the University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine], tells TODAY’s Al Roker how he believes we can protect vulnerable nursing home residents during the coronavirus pandemic.
