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New restrictions will prohibit dining, personal gatherings Navy joins Adamsindoor County to celebrate memorial RSVCOVID-19 viruses
raise concern for children Season starts early, strong BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Mom Brianne Price knew respiratory illnesses could be a concern because her baby was born prematurely. Then her other child, her 4-year-old boy, came home with a cough. Soon after, Price was calling a nurse help line. Her baby also had something, except it was worse. Her baby had trouble breathing. It landed her baby in the hospital. The girl, just shy of 6 months old, had a virus commonly called RSV. She was placed on oxygen. The baby recovered after Colorado Navy soldiers came in honor of the stepping mast ceremony. spending days in the hospital. Now Price, from the Littleton “The Navy is excited about it area, is sounding the alarm for because they want to use it as a other parents, hoping they take recruitment tool, bring potenthe spread of illnesses seriously. tial recruits, maybe bring out “Keeping your kids home when veterans to do physical therapy, they’re sick is super helpful,” weddings, military weddings, Price said. or commissioning of officers Her remarks came during a or chiefs, or retirements. We news conference that included are going to have the USS ColoBY BELEN WARD Children’s Hospital Colorado rado’s bell the same one on the BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM By Ellis Arnold offi cials. It turns out that her submarine, “ said Adam County A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Colorado Community daughter was one of more than Commissioner CharlesMedia “Chaz” replica of a World Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had A to lifesized close early many days in recent Tedesco, a retired Navy Veteran. 1,400 RSV-related hospitalizaWar II-era battleship USS Coloweeksin due high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate As Denver counties continue tions thetoDenver metro area Crews aremetro continuing to buildto rado that’s taking shape on the inch closer to local stay-at-home orders was 15.9 percent, as oflate Nov.Novem17, accordingbanks to Tri-County Health Department. from Oct. 1 through the Veterans Memorial at the of Brighton’s Mannunder Colorado’s system of coronavirusber, partand of aCommerce season where Brighton City’sRSV, test positivity rates were both higher than Riverdale Regional Park, on the Nyholt Lake will never see naval respiratory syncytial virus,inand related restrictions, the stateLake. announced shore of Mann-Nyholt It’s 13 percent. Forty-five people Brightonservice, and 29 in Commerce Cityreceived have but it’s already other viruses, including flu issues. meant to of honor past, present, a new level rules that prohibits indoor honors from the U.S. died from COVID-19 relatedthe health To limit the spread ofNavy. COVID-19, and COVID, are causing more and future veterans for their Several U.S. Navy offi cers dining and personal gatherings — a at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and infections, prompting concerns sacrifi ces applies to defend our country, joined veterans and Adams change that to the majority of the personal gatherings. from public health officials. Tedesco said. County officials for the official Denver metro area and many counties in At times in recent weeks, just “mast stepping” ceremony for other regions. two intensive-care hospital beds Meaning behind mast stepping the replica battleship, destined The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has for children were available in the to debut Photo The mast stepping ceremony by Memorial Day 2023 by Belen Ward been effect since on September, the set was in celebrated Dec. 7, iswhich as the county’s new Veterans of different levels of restrictions that SEE CONCERN, P12 is the Remembrance Day of each Memorial.
New veterans memorial in shape of a battleship reaches midpoint in construction
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Pearl Harbor. Veterans and community members placed mementos in a box that were placed inside the battleship’s mast. U.S. Navy Command Master Chief Benjamin Chester, a 22year veteran who has deployed on three different ships, gave of speech on what the stepping of the mast meanstoand thebased ceremocounty is required follow on the ny’s history. severity of a county’s local virus spread. “The stepping of the mast dial grew out ofevent the state’s safer-atisThe a meaningful of the home ordera — the policy that came building ship,” Chester said.after the statewide “The mast isstay-at-home carefully order low- this springthrough and allowed types of ered thenumerous whole main deck surrounded businesses to reopen.by reinforcingThe shocks reinforcing shocks state recently switched to color security the identifiersstructural — levels blue,beams, yellow and mast inthan jostled into position orangewas rather numbered levels — to through a slot Until into Nov. the keelson.” avoid confusion. 17, level red Chester said the tradition meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level started with the ancient Greeks red — “severe risk” — is the secondand Romans placing coins under SEE MEMORIAL, P4
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