Last call will stay at 10 pm in Colorado bars, Denver district court judge Brian Whitney ruled Thursday.  A group representing more than 200 bars and restaurants filed suit against the state health department last week, arguing that the curfew was arbitrary and would devastate an already-beleaguered service industry.  “The state’s power to regulate its citizen’s health, safety and welfare under our federal system … is vast,” said Daniel Goldberg, a public health ethicist, attorney and CBH faculty. “These lawsuits that crop up — I’m not saying they can’t ever prevail — but they have an uphill battle.”  Read article>>

CU Boulder graduate student Gavriel Kleinwaks is one of nearly 29,000 people who have signed up to be willingly infected with the coronavirus. It’s an effort to speed up the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.  CBH faculty Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD questions if it's ethical to infect people with a potentially lethal virus with no reliable treatment. "As coronavirus transmission rates decline, a challenge trial is a harder sell."  Full story>>