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COVID Diaries Colorado: A day in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Associated Press

   A teacher greets her students. An imam counsels his congregants. A
   firefighter reports for duty. New parents take their baby home from the
   hospital.

   These are routine moments in the lives of Coloradans. But the
   coronavirus has transformed the routine into the remarkable, upending
   how we live and interact with each other.

   As a heavy spring snow blanketed the state on Thursday, April 16,
   journalists from news organizations across Colorado set out to
   chronicle a day in the life of the state's residents during this
   extraordinary time.

   It happened that this day was the deadliest to date in the U.S. for the
   COVID-19 pandemic. More than 4,500 people died. Colorado's state health
   department reported 17 more deaths, and that the death toll had hit 374
   -- a figure that the state would later determine was more than 560, as
   more reports of COVID-19 victims surfaced.

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