With hospitalizations from the coronavirus increasing, Gov. Jared Polis on Saturday ordered the State Emergency Operations Center to return to Level 1 and for hospitals to create a plan in wake of the rise. The announcement followed a record high for the daily number of cases seen in Boulder County, with 321 new cases reported Saturday and CU Boulder showing 22 new positive tests found Friday.
Polis said the return to Level 1 is due to the rise in cases across the state, according to a news release from the governor’s office. The state has four levels of emergency operations. Level 1 brings together all state agencies, federal partners and the voluntary organizations that serve the state’s communities in crisis, the release said. This will allow the Emergency Operations Center to better coordinate and synchronize the state’s response to the pandemic, the release said.
“I will never give up on Coloradans and I know we have the resolve to do what is necessary to defeat this virus. Cases and hospitalizations have continued rising with over 1,100 Coloradans currently hospitalized for COVID,” Polis said in the release. “We simply must do a better job of wearing masks, physically distancing and avoiding social interactions with those outside our households. It’s up to us, Colorado, the time for change is now.”
In response to the increase in hospitalization, Polis also announced that he had signed an executive order to clarify the order of operations. The release said the first line of defense is for hospitals to increase their capacity internally by opening up unused space and augmenting their staffing, the release said.
All general hospitals, according to the executive order, must submit a plan to the state with their maximum surge bed count by Wednesday, the release said. Hospitals must also complete a surge plan to the CDPHE by Nov. 20. That plan must include:
- A detailed plan to potentially increase bed capacity by at least 50% and provide staffing and medical equipment for such increase
- Strategies to increase the number of ICU beds by transitioning medical and surgical beds to ICU beds if needed
- A detailed staffing plan, sufficient to provide adequate care for all beds, including those in use or available to patients other than COVID-19 patients
- A mandate for elective procedures to be actively managed, reduced and/or delayed if there is a surge of COVID-19 infections in the county or municipality in which the Facility is located
Cases are also continuing to rise across Boulder County. Daily Camera reporting shows that the last daily high was 292 cases on Nov. 5. Boulder County Public Health reported that, to date, there have been 8,445 positive or probable cases. The death toll remained at 104. There have been 293 people hospitalized, and there are 267 disease investigations in progress.
CU Boulder reported on its online dashboard that the 22 positive tests were discovered out of 341 diagnostic tests. Since the start of the semester Aug. 24, there have been a total of 1,443 positive tests. There are 48 on-campus isolation spaces in use, which makes up about 9% of the university’s total isolation space, according to the dashboard. There were also 927 monitoring tests taken Friday. In total, the university has conducted 55,730 monitoring tests and 9,489 diagnostic tests.
At the state level, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment recorded 159,234 new cases. There have been 2,525 deaths among cases and of those, there have been 2,234 deaths due to COVID-19. There have been 11,056 hospitalized. Of Colorado’s roughly 5.7 million population, there have been 1,436,205 tested.
Colorado residents are encouraged to sign up for the Colorado Exposure Notification technology that went live on all Android and Apple phones last month. Polis announced in the release Saturday that one million Coloradans have signed up. Those interested can sign up by visiting addyourphone.com.
Boulder County cases by age
0-9: 167
10-17: 322
18-22: 2,610
23-24: 217
25-34: 775
35-44: 652
45-54: 627
55-64: 434
65-74: 254
75+: 316
Results are suppressed when the value is 1 or 2, data states. The data was last updated Thursday.
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