(Bloomberg) — Thirty-percent of people tested for Covid-19 in Colorado are receiving positive results, the highest of the pandemic, as the omicron variant rages, officials said Wednesday.
The data imply a high level of community spread with the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations surpassing an autumn peak, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
There are more hospital beds available in Colorado than during the delta variant peak in late 2021, Scott Bookman, the state’s Covid-19 incident commander, said during an online briefing.
Meantime, local officials are monitoring a new Covid-19 outbreak at the JBS Foods meatpacking plant in Greeley, where several workers died in 2020, Bookman said.
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