{"id":51430,"date":"2020-09-22T23:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorados-coronavirus-surge-isnt-limited-to-college-students\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:56:17","slug":"colorados-coronavirus-surge-isnt-limited-to-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorados-coronavirus-surge-isnt-limited-to-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s coronavirus surge isn\u2019t limited to college students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a78c37de-15bf-4354-9e41-af3ec3b4c881&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1120\" alt=\"Colorado College in Colorado Springs. The school temporarily abandoned in person learning in September because of rising coronavirus cases among its student body.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado College in Colorado Springs. The school temporarily abandoned in person learning in September because of rising coronavirus cases among its student body.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Dr. DeNo\/via Flickr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Colorado\u2019s top epidemiologist on Tuesday issued another warning about<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven among other age groups we\u2019re again seeing rapid acceleration,\u201d Dr. Rachel Herlihy said.<\/p>\n<p>Herlihy said there was a 54% increase in coronavirus cases last week compared with the previous seven days. That jump was especially pronounced among 18 to 25 year olds, which is to be expected given the <a href=\"\">worsening outbreak<\/a> of COVID-19 at University of Colorado Boulder and on other campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Among 18 to 25 year olds, cases rose by 74% last week over the previous seven days. For the rest of that population, the increase was 45%.<\/p>\n<p>Herlihy said the increase in cases is similar to a spike in coronavirus transmission and hospitalizations in Colorado after the July 4 holiday that prompted dire warnings from Gov. Jared Polis and his public health team.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Polis sounded a lot like he did when the last spike in cases happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe general trend has been an increase in COVID in our state,\u201d Polis said. \u201cLet\u2019s step it up over the next couple of weeks. Let\u2019s stamp this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has not seen such a large number of coronavirus cases since late July. About 20% of the new cases are in Boulder County, where COVID-19 has sickened hundreds of CU students and prompted the Boulder campus to announce a move to remote learning for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/09\/22\/colorado-coronavirus-briefing-september-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/09\/22\/colorado-coronavirus-briefing-september-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus cases in Colorado have reached their highest levels since July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,685,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87955,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51430\/revisions\/87955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51430"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}