Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
Medical assistant Jonah Schofield comes out of the OOT box in the parking lot at Keefe Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne Wells on April 4, 2022. The OOT box is for patients suspected of having COVID-19 and is set up to allow patients to be seen by doctors but remain isolated from the people inside the hospital. The box was purchased for the hospital with PPP money. At $5.1 billion, health care programs received 8.1% of the state’s federal pandemic funding. Colorado received around $11,426 per person in federal assistance during the pandemic. But distribution was uneven. Pitkin County collected more than $19,000 per resident, while Crowley County only brought in around $3,500 per resident.
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