The 14-day rolling average of patients shows a more drastic increase of 41.7% reaching 180.9 as of Tuesday, according to the El Paso County Public Health COVID Data Dashboard.
He said nurses are often at the bedside of COVID patients as their lone source of human interaction for some patients and sometimes the last ones they see.
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