Broomfield will implement a city and countywide indoor mask mandate starting Friday.
Officials cited the Marshall Fire taking Avista Hospital offline and the dramatic increases in cases of omicron in Broomfield as the reasons for the mandate.
The mask order is set to expire on Feb. 3 and applies indoors in the city and county to everyone age two and older.
Broomfield was one of the few places in the Denver metro area without a mask mandate. Douglas County is now the only area not requiring masks near Denver.
Colorado recorded its most single-day cases of COVID-19 at any point in the pandemic on Monday with 22,793 new cases. The mark more than doubled the second-highest daily total.
According to a news release from Broomfield, since omicron’s detection in Colorado, Broomfield’s seven-day cumulative incidence has increased from 221 cases per 100,000 on Dec. 2 to 835.2 cases per 100,000 on Jan. 4. That is two-and-a-half times the peak case incidence when delta was the dominant variant circulating in Broomfield.
Broomfield officials also cited the metro region’s ICU bed capacity, which currently is less than 4%, with 62% of facilities reporting staff shortages.
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