- It's been a few weeks since the Colorado State Fairgrounds opened as a mass vaccination site run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. KRCC caught up with FEMA's Julie Brooks, who's stationed at an incident command post in a barn. She shared the site's goals and plans for the future.
- Restaurants and bars in Colorado Springs saw a 35 percent drop in sales last year during the pandemic, but there now are small signs of an economy in recovery according to an annual report released Wednesday by the Downtown Partnership.
- "I think this is probably one of the worst situations I've had to deal with, life threatening that is, since Vietnam," said Konrad Spurling, about COVID.
- The site will launch at the Colorado State Fairgrounds on April 14 and will be open seven days a week
- Community partners in El Paso County like Serivicios de la Raza are helping to address issues of equity in the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.
- KRCC's Elena Rivera caught up with people across Southern Colorado to see how their work and lives have changed one year into the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
- Los Promotores del Valle de San Luis and Sacred Heart Catholic Church will host a COVID vaccine clinic in Alamosa on March 20.
- Agricultural workers, many who primarily spoke Spanish or Qʼanjobʼal, an indigenous Guatemalan language, weren't receiving information about how the virus spread and what people needed to do if they tested positive. That's where Los Promotores comes in.
- Por Elena Rivera. Read in English — Para Lucía Miranda en Center, empezó con síntomas parecidos a un catarro. Estaba cuidando a su padre, quien tiene cáncer, y no quería enfermarlo. Decidió hacerse la prueba del coronavirus, para estar segura.
- Those appointments filled up in a matter of hours, but more pop-up vaccine clinics are on the way.
- In the last year, Colorado has lost nearly 6,000 people to COVID-19.
- The RISE Education Fund, which launched in September 2020, provides CARES Act funding to support schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Upcoming listening sessions will focus on four key topics: communication with the Colorado Springs police department, racial bias, crisis response and use of force.
- Counties across the San Luis Valley and Southern Colorado have started vaccinating adults 70 and older.
- Businesses have to follow stricter COVID-19 safety guidelines to participate in the program, like daily exposure and symptom checks for employees.
