8 months into the year 2020 a global pandemic of COVID-19 continues to rage here at home and around the world. The United States, struggling to adopt a coherent national plan to combat the disease, faces another rise in cases and surmounting death toll as we enter our yearly flu season with the potential for a twindemic that could cripple our health care system.

Mesa County Public Health Epidemiologist Andrew Tyler joins me for a deeper look at SARS-COV-2 and the illness known as COVID-19, the reasons behind our comparatively mild local outbreak, and how we must proceed to keep this disease in check and usher in a return normalcy.