COVID vaccine

The state’s COVID-19 public health emergency order comes to an end today after over three years. However, the New Mexico Department of Health will be hosting a COVID vaccination event tomorrow and is urging people to get boosted.

New Mexico is one of just five states that has kept its COVID-19 public health emergency order in effect. It was set to expire Friday but the governor announced it will stay in place for the rest of the month — the last of 41 extensions since March, 2020.

Three New Mexico counties - Catron, Grant and Hidalgo - have shifted into high community levels of COVID19 after two weeks when the entire state showed low COVID Community Levels. That’s according to the latest federal data. Two new COVID variants are also raising concerns just as the CDC repeals universal masking guidance for hospitals and health clinics.

For the first time in months, the CDC’s COVID-19 Community Level map shows not a single county in New Mexico is red, which would indicate high levels. That means fewer people are being hospitalized due to the virus.But the same updated data from the CDC continues to show that the transmission rates of COVID remain high, with the map turning very red. Fortunately, New Mexicans can now access boosters that target the Omicron variants of the virus.

New Mexico now has 11 counties with high COVID-19 community levels, including Bernalillo and Sandoval. That’s according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday, July 28. It’s six fewer counties than last week, but large swaths of red on the state map show the continuing surge driven by the highly transmissible BA5 variant.

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.

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