COVID-19

A few of the states with the most home births are in the Mountain West, and the region also includes two states that saw some of the country's largest increases from 2019 to 2020.

Resources for those impacted by COVID-19

Source New Mexico's Austin Fisher speaks with Julia Goldberg of the Santa Fe Reporter about rising COVID cases in New Mexico and the lack of public messaging from the Department of Health.

The pandemic has challenged schools and universities in ways big and small. In medical schools, including at UNM, the anatomy labs are struggling with a lack of bodies for dissection.

Discussion of "mild" Omicron as a definition, clinically and individually.

On this episode we talk with two University of New Mexico scholars about why Indigenous communities have such high rates of vaccination against COVID-19, despite a long history of colonization that has created distrust in government and medical institutions.

New Mexico Department of Health officials reformatted the delivery of their regular COVID-19 update on their Wednesday presser. This change raises some questions about government transparency at the height of New Mexico’s omicron surge. KUNM reporter Jered Ebenreck spoke with All Things Considered host Nash Jones about this new format.

Albuquerque Public Schools announced Tuesday that it will begin rolling out stronger COVID-safe practices district-wide in response to an uptick in cases. This comes as Santa Fe Public Schools begins a week of remote learning in response to its COVID positivity rate.

UNM this week told students and employees at all campuses to up their mask game for the start of the Spring semester because of spiking infection numbers and the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19. The two-ply cloth masks that had become the norm are proving insufficient to protect from omicron.

This week on Let's Talk New Mexico we're talking hospital staffing shortages as the omicron variant pushes COVID-19 case numbers to record levels.