This post collects all of our reporting and updates on the coronavirus in Colorado for Friday, April 24. The weekend blog is right here. Our original play-by-play of reporting continues below.

8:13 p.m. — How do you grieve in a pandemic?

There's a new episode of Colorado Public Radio's life under coronavirus podcast, "At A Distance." It's a heavy one, but it's important.

If you’ve lost someone close to you during this pandemic, your grief may feel different than what you expected. That’s totally normal.

But at a time when everyone is up against some sort of loss, grief isn't just possible. It might be essential.

Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

7:51 p.m. — Take a look inside the Aurora Medical Center ER

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Assistant Lead Nurse Jenny Ramirez screens an ER worker coming on shift at the Aurora Medical Center, April 24, 2020.

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News An ER room stands ready for use at the Aurora Medical Center, April 24, 2020.

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Charge Nurse Loren Evans in the emergency room of the Aurora Medical Center, April 24, 2020.

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News A box for used face shields and N95 face masks in the emergency room of the Aurora Medical Center, April 24, 2020.

— Hart Van Denburg

7:39 p.m. — Fort Collins will furlough ~600 part-time employees

Fort Collins is the latest Colorado municipality to furlough workers.

The city will furlough about 600 part-time employees beginning next Friday, May 1. Furloughed workers were notified today.

The administrative breaks are planned to last through the end of June, though the city will reconsider whether to bring staff back, extend the furloughs or make more workforce reductions.

“Extended facility closures combined with expected lost revenues led to the difficult decision,” city manager Darin Atteberry said in a statement. “These are valued colleagues that provide programming and support that enriches our community. They are important members of our City workforce, and my heart goes out to them during this unfortunate and challenging reality.”

— Alex Scoville

6:16 p.m. — A note and correction on case data

CPR News has been tracking and charting the daily releases of data from CDPHE on cases, deaths and hospitalizations. In order to double-check the daily change in for deaths and cases, we've tracked the cumulative total (which we download daily from CDPHE when it is released) and then calculate the change in our own spreadsheets.

For the last couple of days, there was an error in CDPHE's case summary data files that switched the 'Cumulative Number of Cases of COVID-19 in Colorado by Date Reported to the State' and 'Cumulative Number of Cases of COVID-19 in Colorado by Date of Illness Onset.' We contacted CDPHE to confirm and they have corrected their data files, which you can find here.

We've updated our data, but the result was our case charts have displayed the wrong data set (Illness Onset) since Wednesday afternoon until the error was caught.

The state's data is subject to revision which is why we grab a fresh download from the case summary files on a daily basis, rather than track the daily numbers as announced by the state by hand. Our first significant revision was a few weeks ago and we continue to see modifications every few days. We've done some reporting on the challenges with the state's data.

The state gave notice Thursday that a data shift was expected due to additional cases with data from outside labs and other changes. Part of those changes showed in today's data — in cases and deaths.

In his news briefing today, Gov Polis noted there hasn't been a spike in deaths, but "numbers that are being retroactively adjusted or cases, in the case of deaths, of folks who had caught coronavirus as their source of death on their death certificate, but weren't previously included in our data" are now part of the count.

The change in cases comes from 1-2 weeks of data that has come in from private labs.

CPR News will continue to chart cases by "Cumulative Number of Cases of COVID-19 in Colorado by Date Reported to the State" and will keep track of daily changes in deaths by "Cumulative Number of Deaths From COVID-19 in Colorado by Date Reported to the State."

The state's latest death data, "Cumulative Number of Deaths From COVID-19 in Colorado by Date of Death," currently undercounts the state's total and contains a note that the "date of death may not be available for all deaths."

— Jim Hill

5:19 p.m. — Adams and Arapahoe counties will keep stay-at-home orders in place through May 8

Two of the counties in the Tri-County Health Department will keep their stay-at-home orders going after the state relaxes theirs on Monday.

Adams and Arapahoe counties will extend their orders through Friday, May 8, the department announced Friday.

Douglas County will break from those two and relax its stay-at-home order with the state on April 27.

— Alex Scoville

5:06 p.m. — Mesa County is the second Colorado county to get an exemption to reopen on its own schedule

Gov. Polis said Friday that Mesa County has been approved for a waiver to reopen on its schedule and it should be official very soon.

Mesa is the second county to get an exception. Eagle’s was signed earlier this week. Custer and Fremont are also seeking them.

“The local buy-in is critical and that's why we are excited to work with Mesa County, with Eagle County, with any others that have better ways that they can open up more or quicker,” Polis said Friday. “We're happy to work with them and get those approved."

In its letter requesting the exception, Mesa County Commissioners noted that identified cases in the area have stayed relatively flat since March, with only six hospitalizations and no deaths.

— Megan Verlee

4:28 p.m. — The latest coronavirus numbers

There are 12,256 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Colorado as of Thursday, April 23, according to the latest from state health officials.

The statewide death total has reached 674.

Those two numbers saw large jumps since the previous day's data release because health officials are accounting for dozens of previously unreviewed cases and deaths that have been determined to be COVID-19-related.

Total hospitalizations stand at 2,366.

Four more outbreaks in Colorado were identified, bringing the statewide total to 134.

The state has tested nearly 57,000 people.