DENVER — Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations remain stuck in the same rough zone they’ve hovered in for the past six weeks, and it’s not clear why they aren’t dropping as other measures of the virus’s spread improve.
According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 313 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 as of Tuesday afternoon, which was a slight increase from 304 at the same time last week. The number of people receiving hospital care for the virus has fluctuated between 300 and 325 since June 14.
Normally, hospitalizations have started to drop about one week after cases began falling, said Talia Quandelacy, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. But both cases and the percentage of tests coming back positive have been falling for about two weeks, and hospitalizations are still stuck, she said.
