Colorado battles fall COVID-19 resurgence, with highest hospitalization rate since December
ABC News
Colorado officials are growing concerned as the rate of COVID infections rises.
While some areas of the country are cautiously celebrating falling COVID-19 cases, hoping the declines might signal the return to a long-awaited sense of normalcy, some states continue to struggle as Americans prepare for winter.
Health officials in Colorado are growing increasingly concerned as the rate of COVID-19 infections grows to levels not seen in more than 10 months.
There is "a clear increase in cases statewide," state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said in a COVID-19 briefing on Thursday.
In the last month alone, the state's daily case average has nearly doubled -- increasing by 91.5% since late September, according to federal data, and state data shows that Colorado's average positivity rate has risen from just under 7% last week, to nearly 8.5% this week.