WHAT IS THIS NEW COVID-19 VARIANT IN SOUTH AFRICA? South African scientists have identified a new version of the coronavirus this week that they say is behind a recent spike in COVID-19 infections in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. It’s unclear where the new variant actually arose, but it was first detected by scientists in South Africa and has […]

Three years ago, after multiple visits to emergency rooms and her OBGYN office, a patient who was dealing with severe pain and no diagnosis sought out Wafa Elejmi for advice. Elejmi, who was working as a clinical researcher in Denver, was not a practicing doctor in Colorado but had OBGYN residency experience after graduating from medical school in Libya. Someone […]

The boards of health for three metro Denver counties — Jefferson, Adams and Arapahoe — voted Monday evening to require almost everyone to once again wear masks in indoor public spaces, though businesses can be exempted if they require staff and customers to be vaccinated. The Jeffco public health order, adopted by a 4-1 vote, requires adults and most children to […]

By Kate Ruder, Kaiser Health News WESTMINSTER — Melissa Blatzer was determined to get her three children caught up on their routine immunizations on a recent Saturday morning at a walk-in clinic in this Denver suburb. It had been about a year since the kids’ last shots, a delay Blatzer chalked up to the pandemic. Two-year-old Lincoln Blatzer, in his […]