"There not a whole lot of evidence for that 10 degrees cut-off and we know that bad things can start happening to the body even in moderately, low temperatures, 40 degrees and below," said Joshua Barocas, associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases physician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
“...This would make the case for making sure that warming centers are open at 32 degrees because the cold stress can cause considerable mortality among people experiencing homelessness — more so than people NOT experiencing homelessness," Josh Barocas, a doctor and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, wrote to all Denver City Council members.
While it’s nowhere near the level reached in mid-January, when 1,676 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 during the omicron surge, the concern is that there’s less capacity in the health care system to absorb an influx of patients, said Beth Carlton, an associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health.
All of the medications approved in the last decade have a good track record of safety so far, says Adam Gilden, MD, an associate professor and obesity researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. These newer drugs either combine medicines that have good safety records when used individually or those that have been used for a long time to manage type 2 diabetes before gaining traction as obesity treatments.
Hospitals in Colorado are strained with the recent surge in RSV cases. But researchers at CU Anschutz are working on two studies they hope will help prevent another surge from happening in the future. The lead on the two studies, Dr. Eric Simoes, has spent much of his career trying to find solutions to combat the virus.
CDC data shows RSV is causing more hospitalizations and that they are happening earlier than in any previously recorded season, says Kevin Messacar, MD, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora.
“Since last week, we've not seen really any significant change in our RSV volume and the number of kids who are infected with that leading to bronchiolitis and requiring admission to the hospital,” said Dr. Kevin Carney, associate chief medical officer with Children’s Hospital Colorado. … Children's Hospital Colorado has four facilities — on the Anschutz medical campus in Aurora, plus in Broomfield, Highlands Ranch and Colorado Springs.
“We know that women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with advanced disease, but whether their cancer is biologically more active, or missed for a longer period of time, we don’t know,” says Dr. Janet Kukreja, an associate professor and bladder cancer specialist at the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
