This chart displays the number of COVID-19 related hospitalizations versus date. The Hospitalization Index compares the current level of hospitalizations with the daily levels since the start of the pandemic. The higher this index is, the more severe the pandemic is at present. The number of hospitalizations today is higher than 86 percent of the preceding days. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by 
Mary Fellman, left, of Close-Knit Yarn Co-Op and Shelly Kuropatwinski of Atomic City Quilts are closing their shops Tuesday and Wednesday due to a potential COVID-19 exposure at 1247 Central Ave. Post file photo
BUSINESS News:
Out of an abundance of caution and a potential COVID-19 exposure, Atomic City Quilts and Close-Knit Yarn Co-Op will be closed to the public Tuesday, Jan. 18 and Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 1247 Central Ave.
Atomic City Quilts and Close-Knit Yarn Co-Op will continue to provide no-contact curbside pickup and online orders. Read More
MPNHP Los Alamos News:
Due to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Los Alamos and New Mexico, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP) Los Alamos Visitor Center on 20th St., will be closed Monday, Jan. 17.
Assessment of the COVID-19 situation will be conducted throughout the week with decisions made accordingly for next weekend’s operations.
MPNHP Los Alamos apologizes for any inconvenience to visitors.
About the MPNHP Los Alamos
Formally established in November 2015 via a Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of Energy and the National Park Service to preserve portions Read More
PED News:
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) has announced that New Mexico’s largest private school has agreed to pay a $5,000 civil penalty for violating the state’s public health order requiring everyone on campus to wear a face covering to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Albuquerque’s Hope Christian School, which has almost 1,400 students enrolled in grades pre-K through 12, said in a Jan. 12 letter that it was dropping a request for an evidentiary hearing and paying the proposed fine.
The letter was signed by Matthew Spangler, the school’s lawyer, and sent to Craig Read More
By JACCI GRUNINGER, MS, C-IAYT500, ERYT500
Los Alamos
When we talk about different yoga postures we can discuss them from the perspective of strength, flexibility, balance and skill. When we talk about health we can discuss our mental health, physical health, and emotional health. We can also discuss our muscles, connective tissue, and joints.
As a yoga therapist I work with all types of issues but one issue clients often talk about are their joints.
Clients share that their joints pop, creak, bubble and any number of other descriptors. Our joints are important and keeping them functioning Read More
The bars in this chart display the diagnoses rate, the hospitalization rate, and the death rate by vaccination status for the four week period ending Jan. 10, 2022. The diagnoses rate, the hospitalization rate, and the death rates are 2.2, 6.7, and 17.6 times smaller for the vaccinated compared with the unvaccinated. Source: New Mexico Department of Health. Created by Eli Ben-Naim
By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos
Following are anti-viral supplements to supercharge your immune system:
Vitamin D – has been researched extensively and a deficiency significantly impacts the function of our immune system. Viral infections tend to peak in the winter because the days get shorter and the sun is less intense which causes a decrease in our bodies ability to maintain healthy levels. You might be deficient if you have a darker complexion, wear sunscreen all the time or spend most of your time indoors. Levels can be tested through routine bloodwork at your Read More
CHRISTUS St. Vincent President and CEO Lillian Montoya
CHRISTUS St. Vincent News:
Santa Fe – The CHRISTUS St. Vincent Hospital Board has announced its commitment to a new and expanded Regional Cancer Center on the hospital’s main campus.
The initiative represents an important step in the hospital’s continuing mission to serve the cancer care needs of the entire Santa Fe and North Central New Mexico community.
This new state of the art building will ensure a patient-first, fully integrated cancer program that ensures patients can receive all their cancer care in one location, with expanded Read More
Attorney General Hector Balderas
AG News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Friday that New Mexico will join in a $5 billion nationwide settlement with drug maker Johnson & Johnson and two related companies, resolving allegations that the companies fueled the opioid crisis in the state.
The companies have agreed to pay New Mexico its share of the settlement in full, in 2022, if all eligible New Mexico county and city governments sign onto the deal by May 31, 2022.
Most other states will be paid over the course of several years.
“Opioids have destroyed families in New Read More
