Op-ed by Carey Candrian, of Boulder, is an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and on the Board of Directors at GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Health Equity.
“In young adults between the ages of 18 to 40, we’re seeing a higher amount of recreational use and also increased issues surrounding cardiovascular disease, such as stroke,” Robert Page, PharmD, MSPH, professor at the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy Medicine, explained to Health.
“This is a tragedy in its own right and is likely to expand racial health inequalities connected to COVID,” Wendy Netter Epstein, a professor at DePaul University College of Law, and Daniel Goldberg, a public health ethicist at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, argue in our opinion pages. “It will also have broader impacts on the community and the economy as COVID will spread, workforce shortages will continue and burdens of long COVID will increase.”
Environmental activist and mayoral candidate Ean Tafoya has long advocated for better railroad safety measures, and said he worries about the Uinta Basin project. He was involved in a study with GreenLatinos Colorado and Colorado School of Public Health, which found that diesel exhaust emissions from freight traffic in North Denver could lead to increased risk of cancer, poor respiratory health and cardiovascular disease.
House Bill 23-1209, the Analyze Statewide Publicly Financed Health Care Act, just introduced in our General Assembly, will look to answer the questions raised by the report. It would, if passed, charge the Colorado School of Public Health to do a holistic analysis into how publicly funded health care for all Coloradans might look and how it would impact individual and community health.
Viral concentrations in wastewater may be increasing slightly, which would point to increasing infections, but the overall picture is one of stability, said Dr. Jon Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. Hospitalizations are generally trending down nationwide, with a few exceptions, he said.
The district will help with the education and class side and pair up with Children's Hospital of Colorado and the University of Colorado to provide the treatment side to assure quality of care.
The concern is that the way we raise animals in tightly packed facilities helps a virus to spread, giving it more chances to pick up mutations that would allow it to jump to humans, said Dr. Jon Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. While that hasn’t happened with this particular virus, there were cases where farmed minks caught the virus that causes COVID-19 and passed mutations on to their keepers, he said.
March 17, 2023