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Public health officials expect boosters for children 12 to 15 later this week

CDC approves Pfizer’s third dose Wednesday

DATE: Jan 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Chief judge extends suspension of jury trials in Archuleta, San Juan and La Plata counties

Order cites rising COVID-19 cases; no end date is set

DATE: Jan 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

How will pandemic end? Omicron clouds forecasts for endgame

Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won’t be like flipping a light switch: The world will have to learn to coexist with a ...

DATE: Jan 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Health

Once heralded as heroes, Four Corners health care workers now feel drained

One chief medical officer says it’s difficult to see people spurn preventive measures

DATE: Jan 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

La Plata County records first case of omicron

Public health officials say new variant is likely spreading rapidly in Southwest Colorado

DATE: Dec 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dry January offers a gateway to better health

More energy, better sleep, weight loss among benefits of a month of sobriety

DATE: Dec 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

San Juan Basin Public Health adopts new CDC guidelines

Shorter isolation for positive COVID-19 cases and no quarantine for those boosted

DATE: Dec 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

CDC recommends shorter COVID-19 isolation, quarantine for all

NEW YORK – U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need ...

DATE: Dec 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

2021 on track to surpass last year as nation's deadliest

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say 2021 is shaping up to be even deadlier than last year.

DATE: Dec 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

U.S. sets shorter COVID-19 isolation rules for health workers

NEW YORK – Worried that a new COVID-19 wave could overwhelm understaffed U.S. hospitals, federal officials on Thursday loosened rules that call on health care workers to stay out of work for...

DATE: Dec 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

Ignacio student dies from COVID-19 complications

Case marks first COVID-related pediatric fatality in La Plata and Archuleta counties

DATE: Dec 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Explainer: Boosters key to fight omicron, lot still to learn

The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is but scientists don’t yet know if it causes more severe disease even as the worl...

DATE: Dec 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health

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