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Investigating The Third Wave Of COVID In Colorado

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The North Shore Health and Rehab Facility in Loveland, March 23, 2021.

At one point in the pandemic, the rate of nursing home deaths in Colorado was the worst in the nation. This was over several weeks last fall during the third wave of COVID-19. How the state got to that point is the subject of a CPR News investigation. Reporter Ben Markus lifts the curtain on why he began looking into this and what he found. Listen to Ben's radio reports here:

How Colorado Caught COVID: The Third Wave Part One

How Colorado Caught COVID: The Third Wave Part Two

How Colorado Caught COVID: The Third Wave Part Three