At the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Tom Gonzales, director of public health in Colorado’s sixth-largest county, made a decision in mid-October that felt like a dismaying retreat in the battle against the coronavirus. He reinstated an indoor mask mandate.
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Updated November 10, 2021 at 6:24 p.m. EST|Published November 10, 2021 at 8:35 a.m. EST