Many of us have got lax; lulled into a false sense of security by consistently low transmission rates of the coronavirus in communities and a president and vice-president who assured Americans there would be no second wave of Covid-19 breaking upon the shores of our hospital system.

Yet a few days from Thanksgiving there are 1,378 people in Colorado’s hospitals seeking treatment for severe Covid-19 symptoms and an additional 165 seeking hospital care while waiting for their test results. The trajectory for hospital admissions looks dire unless something changes drastically...

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