5 years in the past this month, the coronavirus pandemic upended life in Colorado and around the globe.
Greater than 14,000 Coloradans died, in response to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, and the state noticed more than 1.7 million COVID-19 cases.
It was a world well being disaster that additionally reshaped the state’s financial system immediately.
Companies and air journey largely shut down for a time. Distant work, on-line grocery ordering, and meal supply companies turned acquainted elements of on a regular basis life.
Richard Wobbekind is a senior economist with the College of Colorado Leeds Faculty of Enterprise. If his identify sounds acquainted, it’s doubtless as a result of numerous media retailers flip to him for his evaluation.
5 years after the pandemic started, we wished to listen to his perspective about how the occasion modified the state’s financial system in methods giant and small. He spoke with Erin O’Toole about COVID-19’s impression on Colorado’s housing market, outside trade, and different sides of enterprise within the state.
Learn extra from NPR on the legacy and impression of the COVID pandemic.
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