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Coronavirus updates in Denver: news you can use and slices of life in these strange times

It’s like your Twitter feed right now but with fewer trolls and more news.

Alex Chavarria organizes groceries inside the Sun Valley Kitchen, March 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Ana Campbell

Mar. 27, 2020, 7:47 a.m.

Mar. 27, 2020, 7:47 a.m.

11:23 a.m. Local man shadowboxes through pandemic

Reader (and my friend) Jake Pelton saw this guy beating COVID-19 up in Civic Center Park yesterday.

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-Ana Campbell

9:56 a.m. The Big Empty

Videographer Blake Rubenstein of Guerilla Capturing deployed his drone during the lunch hour on March 24 and March 26. What’d he find? A whole lot of nothing.

7:53 a.m. The library will host daily story times…starting today!

Starting today, those angels at the Denver Public Library will read stories every day Monday through Friday. The first hour, 9 a.m., will be in Spanish, 10 is for toddlers and 11 is all ages. The stories will be read (and archived) at youtube.com/denverlibrary.

-Ana Campbell

7:44 a.m. Denver jazz legend Freddy Rodriguez Sr. dies from coronavirus complications

Rodriguez, 89, was a staple at El Chapultapec for more than four decades. He had been in the hospital for a week.

“He was our king, our sax man,” his son Freddy Rodriguez Jr. told The Know. “Not just in music, but in life. He was an old-school, dedicated person who treated everybody with respect.”

A Denver Health nurse distributes addiction medication to an inmate at the Denver County Jail, Jan. 9, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

How many people at Denver’s downtown jail have coronavirus? Depends on who you ask.

Colorado and Denver health departments had been measuring the outbreaks differently until we asked what was going on.

Denver Democratic Socialists, dressed as grim reapers, protest a lack of eviction protections in front of the Capitol. May 26, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Grim reapers “hope” legislators don’t do anything about June evictions

The Denver Democratic Socialists were being sarcastic.

Bailey Queen stands in the RV trailer parked in front of his parents' Thornton home after a ten-hour shift working in an ambulance. May 15, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

These Denver EMTs are still seeing a lot of coronavirus patients and avoiding close contact with loved ones

The front-line workers at American Medical Response say they still see patients sick with COVID-19 every day.

Outdoor dining at Ocean Prime in Larimer Square. May 19, 2016. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

At least 375 restaurants, bars and breweries have applied for Denver’s new patio expansion program

It's a fraction of the eligible businesses in the city.

Sunday Vinyl at Union Station is closed. March 21, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Denver’s unemployment rate soars to 13.2 percent in the coronavirus era, squashing Great Recession joblessness

The city's chief financial officer believes we're in a recession.

Shoppers line up before dawn outside a King Soopers supermarket on Quebec Street in Denver Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

Coworker of deceased King Soopers employee worries stores are still too crowded

“I think they really try, but they are not trying hard enough.”

Possibly frustrated swallows fly around the Washington Park boathouse, which recently has had its eaves netted to keep the birds from making mud nests as they usually do. May 21, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Swallows can no longer nest at the Wash Park boathouse

They're still trying, though.

Ismael Guerrero, head of the Denver Housing Authority, in his office suite on an 11th floor in the Mariposa housing district. May 21, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Departing head of the Denver Housing Authority reflects on his tenure, considers the post-pandemic future

Ismael Guerrero is leaving DHA for Mercy Housing, a Denver-based national affordable housing nonprofit.

A dead miller moth. May 20, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Why are there so many moths in Denver? A scientist explains.

Also: Why are they called miller moths? Why did your dog eat a miller moth? Why must the moths enter your home?

Check-in lines were super bad at Denver International Airport on a very snowy day, Oct. 29, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

The only recorded coronavirus outbreak at a construction site in Denver has been at DIA

At least 14 workers tested positive.

Ely, 12, flips into the pool at the La Alma Recreation Center, July 11, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Things to do in Denver this weekend, May 22-24

Is it summer yet?

A man in a red hoodie rides a red Jump bike on the Cherry Creek Trail, Aug. 20, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Jump bikes roll back into Denver with a focus on food deserts and sanitized handlebars

The electric bike-share company briefly vanished while Lime acquired the company from Uber.

GEO's Aurora Contract Detention Facility. Feb. 25, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Aurora immigration jail confirms first coronavirus cases among detainees

It joins the list of more than 50 jails, prisons and detention centers nationwide where someone in ICE custody tested positive with COVID-19.

Lindsey Rosendahal and her son, Anders, runs across Federal Boulevard during a traffic slowing demo put on by Vision Zero and WalkDenver in Denver's Regis neighborhood, April 27, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Denver’s behind on sidewalk and bike lane construction but ahead on other street safety fixes

The Denver Streets Partnership wants the city to lower speed limits, get rid of pedestrian beg-buttons and ban turns on red downtown.

Michael Odom (left) and Takahiro Beachum, employees of Denver Police's crime lab, work a new mass testing facility for COVID-19 at the Pepsi Center. May 21, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Gov. Polis, Mayor Hancock unveil massive coronavirus testing site at Pepsi Center

The testing could be key in helping reopen the city and state's economy.

Jimmy Hawkins, Jordan Hawkins, Greg Benda, Chelsea Duke and Matt Duke of Atlanta at the Great American Beer Festival on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (Paul Karolyi for Denverite)

Great American Beer Festival won’t happen in-person for the first time in its history

The festival and competition will move online.

City Park West's Leon Gallery got some new flags. May 13, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Being a nonprofit gallery means art and artists, not money, are the priorities at Leon

But money still has to be made.

Outside the The Argyle Assisted Living on Monday, May 18, 2020, in Denver's Berkeley neighborhood. (Esteban L. Hernandez/Denverite)

Long-term care facilities in Denver — home to deadly coronavirus outbreaks — cited for not complying with health orders

The citations could result in fines, jail time or criminal charges.

Montview Boulevard is an autumn tunnel, Oct. 22, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

As the city reopens, Denver leaders brace the economy for a coronavirus surge in the fall

Finance officials are wading into uncharted waters.

Denver Police Officer Toby Wilson speaks with St. John's Episcopal Cathedral Dean Rev. Richard Lawson as city workers clean up trash and items belonging to people living outside here along the sidewalk. Capitol Hill, May 20, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

New fencing accompanied a homeless encampment cleanup at Saint John’s Cathedral

“They just keep kicking us out of everywhere.”