Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post
Any Coloradan with coronavirus symptoms can now get tested, for free, whether or not they have health insurance, Gov. Jared Polis said Monday.
That’s a major change. In the early, mid-March days of the pandemic, Polis repeatedly said the state needed to be testing up to 10,000 people every day in order to execute an appropriate response — but Colorado, for many weeks, was only testing a few hundred people every day.
In those early months, testing was limited largely to front-line health workers and people who already were hospitalized with suspected COVID-19 or who had severe enough symptoms they could secure a doctor’s order.
Only recently has the state consistently been testing several thousand people per day, with its daily peak of about 4,500 reached last week.
Support Local Journalism
Read the full story from The Denver Post.
Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times’ work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.
Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. Every contribution, however large or small, will make a difference.
Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage.