DENVER (KDVR) — COVID-19 continues to rise in Colorado. According to state data, Colorado had 665 confirmed COVID-19 hospitalizations on Monday — the highest number since mid-May.
A majority of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated. Recent data shows that unvaccinated people accounted for 83.3% of hospitalizations in a single week in August.
From Aug. 16 to Aug. 23, 35 counties saw a rise in COVID-19 positivity, 25 saw a decline in COVID-19 positivity, two counties had no movement and two counties administered less than ten tests in the past week.
As of Monday, the state’s seven day positivity rate was 6.55%, which is up from 5.75%. The highest positivity rate in the state over the past seven days is San Juan with 22% positivity.
Here’s a look at positivity rates for every county over the last seven days:
1-week positivity rate:
- Adams: 9.0% (up from previous week)
- Alamosa: 2.6% (down from previous week)
- Arapahoe: 7.3% (up from previous week)
- Archuleta: 7.2% (down from previous week)
- Baca: .6% (down from previous week)
- Bent: 0.0% (down from previous week)
- Boulder: 4.1% (up from previous week)
- Broomfield: 5.8% (up from previous week)
- Chaffee: 7.4% (up from previous week)
- Cheyenne: 6.1% (down from previous week)
- Clear Creek: 11.1% (up from previous week)
- Conejos: 3.8% (down from previous week)
- Costilla: 1.8% (down from previous week)
- Crowley: 0.9% (down from previous week)
- Custer: 14.9% (down from previous week)
- Delta: 5.2% (up from previous week)
- Denver: 5.7% (up from previous week)
- Dolores: 16% (up from previous week)
- Douglas: 7.5% (up from previous week)
- Eagle: 10% (down from previous week)
- Elbert: 8.5% (up from previous week)
- El Paso: 7.1% (up from previous week)
- Fremont: 2.4% (up from previous week)
- Garfield: 4.2% (down from previous week)
- Gilpin: 6.2% (up from previous week)
- Grand: 16.1% (up from previous week)
- Gunnison: 7% (down from previous week)
- Hinsdale: Fewer than 10 tests in the past week
- Huerfano: 1.8% (down from previous week)
- Jackson: 0.0% (same)
- Jefferson: 6.1% (up from previous week)
- Kiowa: 4.8% (down from previous week)
- Kit Carson: 1.3% (down from previous week)
- Lake: 4.8% (down from previous week)
- La Plata: 6.2% (up from previous week)
- Larimer: 7.5% (up from previous week)
- Las Animas: 11.4% (up from previous week)
- Lincoln: 4.3% (up from previous week)
- Logan: 2.8% (up from previous week)
- Mesa: 3.8% (up from previous week)
- Mineral: Fewer than 10 tests in the past week
- Moffat: 5% (down from previous week)
- Montezuma: 7% (up from previous week)
- Montrose: 4.7% (down from previous week)
- Morgan: 8.6% (up from previous week)
- Otero: 2.8% (up from previous week)
- Ouray: 13% (up from previous week)
- Park: 9.5% (down from previous week)
- Phillips: 7.1% (up from previous week)
- Pitkin: 4.5% (up from previous week)
- Prowers: 4.7% (up from previous week)
- Pueblo: 4.3% (up from previous week)
- Rio Blanco: 8.2% (up from previous week)
- Rio Grande: 5.5% (down from previous week)
- Routt: 9.1% (down from previous week)
- Saguache: 6.9% (down from previous week)
- San Juan: 22% (up from previous week)
- San Miguel: 6.6% (down from previous week)
- Sedgwick: 7.0% (up from previous week)
- Summit: 7.3% (down from previous week)
- Teller: 6.8% (up from previous week)
- Washington: 1.8% (down from previous week)
- Weld: 10.4% (up from previous week)
- Yuma: 2.7% (same)
According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the incidence rates are also rising over the last seven days.
