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LAMC To Provide Bi-Weekly COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics For Community By Appointment Beginning Wednesday March 3

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By JENNIFER KING
Director of Quality & Patient Safety Officer
LifePoint Health®
Los Alamos Medical Center

In an effort to provide clear, transparent communication with our community, Los Alamos Medical Center would like to clarify the strategic struggles of planning, executing and administering the COVID-19 vaccine.

All of our initial vaccination efforts were placed on vaccinating our healthcare providers and first responders, ensuring they remained healthy enough to continue providing medical care to our community.

Since completing our vaccination efforts toward our frontline Read More

New Mexico COVID-19 Update: 314 New Cases, Total Now 183,335 With 9 New Deaths And 135,608 Patients Recovered

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STATE News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials today announced 314 additional COVID-19 cases.

Los Alamos County reports 1 new case today bringing the total to 475 people who have tested positive for COVID-19. (County totals are subject to change upon further investigation and determination of residency of individuals positive for COVID-19.)

Today’s update includes 9 more deaths in New Mexico related to COVID-19.

The New Mexico Department of Health reports today’s most recent cases:

  • 111 new cases in Bernalillo County
  • 2 new cases in Chaves County
  • 2 new cases in Cibola County
  • 3 new cases
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New Mexico Administers Over 500,000 COVID Vaccines

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STATE News:

  • New Mexico among country’s fastest for vaccine administration

SANTA FE –  The New Mexico Department of Health announced today that the state had administered more than 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

New Mexico consistently ranks among the three fastest states in the country for vaccine administration, according to the CDC.

“New Mexicans can be proud: thanks to a first-in-the-nation registration system and a dedicated network of health care providers and volunteers across our state, we are vaccinating our population extraordinarily quickly,” DOH Secretary Dr. Tracie Read More

State Budget Passes Committee, Moves To Full Vote

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Rep. Patricia Lundstrom

HOUSE DEMOCRAT News:

SANTA FE — The state budget House Bill 2 unanimously passed the House Appropriations and Finance Committee chaired by Rep. Patricia Lundstrom (D-Gallup) Monday with bipartisan support.

The General Appropriations Act of 2021 is a reflection of the legislature’s priorities, making appropriations for economic relief programs and responsibly continuing the state’s investments in education, public safety, health, infrastructure, and long-term economic development. HB 2 appropriates $7.39 billion for Fiscal Year 2022, an increase of 4.6 Read More

LANL Frontiers In Science Talk: COVID Solutions Feb. 24

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At Wednesday talk, Nick Hengartner will set the stage for how disease modeling works. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

The community is invited to join an online Frontiers In Science Talk at 6 p.m., Feb. 24 with three top Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers exploring COVID solutions.

Click here to register. Email fis@lanl.gov to submit questions.

Nick Hengartner is an applied mathematician at LANL and former leader of the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group (T-6), one of the few research groups in the world devoted to mathematical biology and infectious disease modeling. 

He Read More

New Mexico Long Term Care Facilities Reach Milestone: No New COVID Cases Or COVID-Related Deaths

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Katrina Hotrum-Lopez

ALTSD News:

New Mexico Aging and Long Term Services Department announces that the State of New Mexico’s Long Term Care [LTC] industry reached an important milestone Sunday, Feb. 21, with no new COVID cases or COVID-related deaths.

While experts warn that the virus is still a threat – and that there will likely be more COVID cases and deaths in LTCs – the lack of new cases and deaths is reassuring and confirms that infection control measures, monoclonial antibody treatments, and vaccines are working to protect LTC residents.

“Giving our long term care residents the ability Read More

New Mexico COVID-19 Update: 237 New Cases, Total Now 183,023 With 11 New Deaths And 134,105 Patients Recovered

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STATE News:

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials today announced 237 additional COVID-19 cases.

Los Alamos County reports 1 new case today bringing the total to 474 people who have tested positive for COVID-19. (County totals are subject to change upon further investigation and determination of residency of individuals positive for COVID-19.)

Today’s update includes 11 more deaths in New Mexico related to COVID-19.

The New Mexico Department of Health reports today’s most recent cases:

  • 79 new cases in Bernalillo County
  • 1 new case in Catron County
  • 3 new cases in Chaves County
  • 2 new cases
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New Mexico House Passes Repeal Of Abortion Ban

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Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena

By ROBERT NOTT
SFNM

The New Mexico House of Representatives engaged in hours of emotional testimony Friday over whether women should have the legal right to an abortion before sending a bill to the governor to repeal an obsolete ban on the procedure.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said earlier Friday she would sign Senate Bill 10, ending a decades-old and currently unenforceable law making it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion in New Mexico.

The action comes amid concern that a more conservative panel of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn or weaken the Read More