Data sources:
Age 18+ Health Risks and Flu Immunization data come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: Colorado Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Age 65+ Health Risks data come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse: Medicare Beneficiaries.
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Note: Prevalence estimates are calculated by taking the Medicare beneficiaries with a particular number of conditions divided by the total number of beneficiaries in the fee-for-service population, expressed as a percentage.
Note: For county-level prevalence, estimates of each condition were generated using a multilevel regression and post-stratification approach for 3,142 counties in all 50 states and DC. For more information, please visit: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6929a1.htm?s_cid=mm6929a1_w
Note: The bar charts above display the numbers for each indicator for all 64 Colorado counties. This can help you understand how one county compares to all other counties for a specific community characteristic.
There is evidence suggesting that various demographic, socio-economic and health risks are associated with different levels of COVID-19 disease severity. Please visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more information about how these indicators may be connected to different levels of COVID-19 severity.