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Colorado’s COVID hospitalizations keep rising, while flu and RSV stay low

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

COVID-19 hospitalizations across Colorado have increased steadily since August and are nearly at their highest point of 2023, though there are indications this latest wave — which is much smaller than earlier surges — could be starting to wane.At the same time, the season doesn’t appear to have started in earnest locally for the other major respiratory viruses.Data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment showed 257 people statewide were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Tuesday, up from 236 a week earlier — and a nearly 360% increase since this year’s low point on Aug. 1.Still, that’s significantly fewer than when more than 1,500 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 during each of the pandemic’s largest spikes in December 2020, November 2021 and January 2022.It’s possible some of the current COVID-19 patients were admitted for other reasons and tested positive, but since hospitals no longer routinely test everyon...

CU Buffs vs. Oregon State Beavers football: How to watch, storylines and staff predictions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

Oregon State (6-2, 3-2 Pac-12) at Colorado (4-4, 1-4)When/where: Saturday, 8 p.m./Folsom FieldTV/Radio: ESPN/850 AM, 94.1 FMBetMGM Line: Oregon State -13.5, 62.5 over/underWeather: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.Five storylinesRun the darn ball: With just 629 rushing yards, the Buffs rank 128th in FBS. At least they’re ahead of Colorado State, which ranks 129th, but the bottom line is CU’s offense is extremely predictable. Offensive coordinator Sean Lewis needs to commit to running the ball, especially on third-and-short, and using its stable of backs, two of whom Coach Prime brought in. Houston transfer Alton McCaskill has 14 carries for 59 yards in ’23; Kentucky transfer Kavosiey Smoke has two carries for zero yards.Protecting No. 2: The Buffs rank 129th among FBS teams in sacks allowed with 42, with a national-worst 381 yards lost on those plays. QB Shedeur Sanders was running for his life in last week’s loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl, getting sacked s...

Nuggets Mailbag: Does Denver have any players capable of replicating Bruce Brown’s trash talking skills?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

Beat writer Bennett Durando opens up the Nuggets Mailbag periodically during the season. Pose a Nuggets — or NBA — related question here.How long do you think it will take for Michael Malone to give Julian Strawther consistent minutes off the bench? Do the Nuggets need him, or the other rookies, to step up this year?— Matt, Lincoln ParkThe Strawther minutes will come with time. As good as the second unit was in Denver’s first four wins, there are too many young players coming off the bench for Malone to not get frustrated with one or two of them occasionally. Peyton Watson’s start to the season has been massively encouraging, but he has also disappeared for stretches. Growing pains are natural. Rotations will change. Malone wants to experiment within reason to find out who plays well with whom, and he does want to make sure promising rookies like Strawther get reps to develop this season. I expect the appearance of the second unit will have its ebbs and flows...

CSU Rams vs. Wyoming football: How to watch, storylines and staff predictions

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

CSU Rams (3-5, 1-3 Mountain West) vs. Wyoming (5-3, 2-2)When/where: Friday, 6 p.m./War Memorial StadiumTV/Radio: CBSSN/1600 AM, 104.3 HD2BetMGM Line: Wyoming -6.5, 41.5 over/underWeather: 48 degrees at kickoff, partly cloudy with 16 mph wind.Five storylinesLooking to rebound: CSU and Wyoming enter the 115th edition of the Border War coming off their worst offensive showings of the season. The Rams managed just 13 points (none in the second half) against Air Force in a 30-13 loss at snow-filled Canvas Stadium. While Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi had 297 yards on 28-of-45 passing, the Rams had just one red zone trip and their lone TD came on a 61-yard pass. On the other side, Wyoming quarterback Andrew Peasley followed a pair of three-touchdowns games with an 83-yard dud on 10-of-20 passing in a 32-7 loss at Boise State.Running on empty: With the second lowest yards-per-game average (74.0) in FBS, the banged-up CSU run game has struggled all season. That was again the case in last week̵...

Broncos midseason report card: After 0-3 start under Sean Payton, a ray of hope heading into second half

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

The Broncos have reached the midpoint of Year 1 of the Sean Payton era. The season began with playoff hopes then quickly flipped to calls to tank for Caleb Williams. But Denver won two straight before its bye week, and the trade deadline came and went without the team sending away any key players to jumpstart a rebuild. With the playoffs still a longshot at 3-5, here’s how each position group grades out through eight games in 2023:OffenseQuarterbackIs Russell Wilson back? After throwing three touchdowns in Denver’s win over Kansas City in Week 8, there’s at least a ray of hope that might be the case. Wilson has thrown for 1,613 yards, 16 touchdowns and four interceptions. His touchdown total at the bye week matches his entire 2022 season. He also has the fourth-best passer rating in the league at 101.7.Yes, Wilson has not been perfect. He threw for 95 yards and two picks in the first matchup at Kansas City. He’s had issues with execution in the second half, with a comple...

Metro Denver home sales continue to slow under weight of higher interest rates

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

Home sales in metro Denver fell last month under the pressure of mortgage rates on 30-year loans approaching 8%, but the market found ways to keep on breathing, according to a monthly update from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.Buyers closed on 2,986 homes and condos in October, down 11.6% from September and 15.7% from the pace of sales a year ago. Through the first 10 months of the year, the metro market has seen a fifth fewer home and condo sales than in the same period of 2022 and a third fewer than in 2021.There were 7,482 properties listed for sale at the end of October in the Denver area, down 1.9% from September and up 2.6% from last year. Sellers provided 3,816 new listings, which was down 16.8% from September and off 0.6% from a year earlier.The median price of a single-family home that sold in October was $649,000, up 1.4% from September’s median sales price of $640,000 and 3.8% from a year earlier. For condos and townhomes, the median sales price was $425,0...

Who's who: Overview of Parliament's leadership  

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

MEPs elected a new Parliament president, vice-presidents and quaestors in January 2022. Find out from our infographic who was chosen for Parliament's key posts, EU affairs .Who's who: The BureauRoberta METSOLA (European Parliament President)Access to the MEP's card ( Roberta METSOLA )The President is elected for a renewable term of two-and-a-half years14 Vice-presidentsThey chair debates when the president is not in the chamber.The President can also delegate duties to them.Othmar KARAS (First vice-president) ( EPP )   Access to the MEP's card ( Othmar KARAS )Pina PICIERNO ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Pina PICIERNO )Pedro SILVA PEREIRA ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Pedro SILVA PEREIRA )Ewa KOPACZ ( EPP )   Access to the MEP's card ( Ewa KOPACZ )Marc ANGEL ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Marc ANGEL )Evelyn REGNER ( S&D )   Access to the MEP's card ( Evelyn REGNER )Rainer WIELAND ( EPP )   Access to the MEP's card ...

Elias: California should try same test on homelessness as addiction

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

“The business of America is business,” President Calvin Coolidge famously observed in 1925.Related ArticlesLocal News | Elias: California’s denser housing ‘solutions’ are failing badly Local News | Elias: Butler does California Democrats a big favor in U.S. Senate race Local News | Elias: Science only seems to justify Newsom’s policies when convenient Plenty of other American cliches support his view: “Money talks, and (other stuff) walks,” goes one. “Show me the money,” says another. California authorities have now begun testing this principle on drug addiction, one of the state’s most obdurate problems.If it works there, they also ought to try it on homelessness, where high percentages of the unhoused either refuse temporary shelter or end up back on the streets after getting thrown out of housing for various types of misbehavior.The state’s ongoing trial run is a response to the failure of drug addictio...

Opinion: Banning AI in the classroom would be a generational mistake

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

American higher education is in a tug-of-war over the merits and potential abuses of AI. Fearing the self-learning artificial intelligence algorithm will render meaningless the traditional teacher-student relationship, some want to ban the technology from the classroom altogether.That would be a generational mistake.Each generation of students, it seems, is faced with some newly discovered technology that threatens to destroy the education system as we know it. At one point it was the handheld Texas Instruments calculator, a wonder of 1970s digitization, that many mathematics instructors initially forbade students from using. Mathematics was considered too important for personal development to hand off to a machine. It was pencil and eraser or nothing.Of course, it turns out calculators didn’t upend math education as many feared. Educators adapted the new technology into the curriculum and pivoted to teaching broader concepts than simple addition and subtraction.Similarly, AI holds ...

Review: Colman Domingo shines in terrific ‘Rustin’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:20 GMT

By Mark Kennedy | Associated PressThe 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country — the largest march at that point in American history — and was the place where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.It likely wouldn’t have happened without the work of a master strategist: Bayard Rustin, a gay Black socialist and pacifist-activist from Pennsylvania, whose close friendship with King was the engine in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement.The winning, triumphant Netflix movie “Rustin” explores the stressful weeks leading up to the march from the grassroots level, with Colman Domingo starring as the organizer who many people know nothing about.It was he who wrangled 80,000 boxed lunches, 22 first aid stations, six water tanks, 2,200 chartered buses, six chartered flights, 292 latrines, over 1,000 Black police officers and a change to the city’s subway schedule, not to ...