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The updated direction will halt vaccination of school staff and other essential workers in Colorado after this week, said Karen Miller, the nurse vaccine manager for the TriCounty Health Department, which serves Adams, Arapahoe, and Douglas counties.

Officials use wastewater samples to predict COVID outbreaks within a three-to-eight day window.

The district did not disclose how many students are returning to school and how many will continue learning remotely. It did, however, say the numbers it expects today are similar to what it saw at the start of the first semester before the switch back to fully remote learning in November.

In addition to the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Regional Transportation District, Denver International Airport also is expected to receive money to help offset its continuing pandemic-induced losses.

"Radon exposure causes as many as 500 lung cancer deaths every year in Colorado."

The electric rate is going up 5.4%, which will result in a typical residential user’s bill going up by about $3.67 on average; the water rate increase is 9%, which translates to an additional $3.80 per month for the average residential user, according to Scott Rochat, spokesman for Longmont Power and Communications.

The Leeds Business Confidence Index for the first quarter found the needle didn’t move much from the end of 2020. However, confidence for the second quarter “improved largely on positive news about the vaccine and the hopes of a real reopening of the economy,” according to the report from the Leeds Business Research Division at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Two new studies mark the most rigorous efforts yet to understand the link between schools and COVID spread in the U.S.

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