That’s still well above previous lows, however. Hospital admissions were at roughly the level seen at the trough between the delta and omicron waves, with 979 people hospitalized statewide with confirmed COVID-19. That’s still higher than the state’s goal of 5%, but indicates the public health system has a better picture of how many people are infected than it did in recent weeks. The percentage of tests coming back positive also returned to the precedented zone, averaging 12% over the last week - the lowest rate since Christmas. So far, the state has reported 258 deaths from COVID-19 in the third week of January, and that number could increase as late reports come in. At the worst point of the current omicron-fueled wave, in early January, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported more than 90,000 cases in a single week.ĬOVID-19 deaths continued to increase, however, approaching levels seen at the peak of the delta wave in November. The state reported 21,268 new cases in the week ending Sunday - near the high point of the fall 2021 surge driven by the virus’s delta variant. Colorado’s COVID-19 numbers are no longer unprecedented, but they’re still high enough that it’s wise to keep masks handy for a while, a member of the state’s modeling team said Monday.
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