Dengue may not be a top-of-mind malady for those in Colorado, but it infects about 400 million people worldwide each year – roughly four times the official cumulative U.S. coronavirus case count. West Nile virus put several people in UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital at the Anschutz Medical Campus (UCH) this summer. Zika remains a threat in the Americas and beyond.
The omicron surge has peaked and appears to be on a double-black-diamond downslope. Three major metro Denver counties dropped mask mandates in early February. Statewide hospitalizations from this omicron-driven coronavirus wave peaked at 1,676 in mid-January and stood at 1,012 as of Feb. 8, a number the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Group expects to fall to below 500 by the end of February.
There are still more questions than answers about the newest variant of COVID-19, omicron. UCHealth experts explain what omicron is and what you can do to stay safe. Photo by Joel Blocker, for UCHealth. Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant, is here.
