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Deaths in Colorado declined in 2022, but were still higher than pre-pandemic levels. Is this the new normal?

Nearly 47,000 people died in Colorado last year, a mortality level still about 12% higher than before COVID

Debbie Garcia, right, holds, photo of ...
Debbie Garcia, right, holds, photo of her daughter Karina Rodriguez, who died of a fentanyl overdose, on the Capitol steps in Denver on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Gov. Jared Polis signed HB22-1326 into law. The legislation is intended to combat fentanyl, which killed more than 900 people in Colorado last year. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - MARCH 7:  Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Fewer Coloradans died in 2022 than during the first two years of the pandemic, but itap too soon to tell whether the state’s still-elevated death toll last year was a point of transition or the start of a new normal.
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