November 9, 2020

NM has over 1,400 new COVID-19 cases, 12 additional deaths

New Mexico once again reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases, the third time this has happened in the last four days, and a double-digit number of newly reported deaths. The state Department of Health reported 1,418 cases of COVID-19 and 12 additional deaths related to the disease. Bernalillo County had a new single-day […]

Matthew Reichbach

New Mexico once again reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases, the third time this has happened in the last four days, and a double-digit number of newly reported deaths.

The state Department of Health reported 1,418 cases of COVID-19 and 12 additional deaths related to the disease.

Bernalillo County had a new single-day record, with 464 new cases reported on Monday. Doña Ana County had the next-most new cases, with 201, followed by Sandoval County (93), Santa Fe County (92), Lea County (75), Chaves County (59), Eddy County (54) and Curry County (51).

In all, 29 of the state’s 33 counties reported at least one newly reported case on Monday.

The Otero County Prison Facility reported 14 new cases among those held by federal agencies.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 dropped to 423, 14 fewer than on Sunday, though hundreds higher than any time before the last few weeks.

This could include those from out of state who are hospitalized for COVID-19 in New Mexico, but would not include New Mexicans who are hospitalized out of state. The number of those hospitalized from out of state has been a low percentage of overall cases, the state’s hospitalization update from last week showed.

As of Monday, 82 percent of all general hospital beds and 66 percent of ICU beds were occupied. This is for all reasons, not just COVID-19.

DOH provided some details on each of the 14 newly reported deaths related to COVID-19.

A male in his 40s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized.
A second male in his 70s from Bernalillo County who was a resident of the Skies Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Albuquerque.
A male in his 60s from Curry County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A second female in her 70s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions. The individual was a resident of the Casa de Oro Center in Las Cruces.
A male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 90s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from Grant County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.

The most common underlying condition for those who died with COVID-19 was cardiovascular disease, followed by diabetes and hypertension, according to the state’s latest mortality update.

DOH has now found 56,289 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and reported 1,130 deaths related to the disease.

Of those confirmed cases, 23,457 are designated as recovered by DOH as of Monday.

The New Mexico Environment Department Rapid Response COVID-19 Watchlist had 157 workplaces listed on Monday. These are workplaces that have had two or more rapid responses after a positive COVID-19 case in the last two weeks. No new workplaces had four or more cases in the last two weeks, which requires a workplace to shut down for 14 days.

Gating criteria

The rate of spread reached 1.17 as of Nov. 7, according to the state’s gating criteria. The rate of spread is the number of people, on average, that someone with COVID-19 will spread the disease to. The state hopes to keep this at or below 1.05.

The average daily number of cases, on a seven-day rolling average, eclipsed 1,000 as of Nov. 3. The state calculates this by the date of specimen collection, so it can lag by several days as some labs take longer to process and report results to the state.

The test positivity rate, on a seven-day rolling average, rached 10.4 percent as of Nov. 8, well above the state’s gating criteria of 5 percent or below.

The number of COVID-19 tests per day was 11,168 as of Nov. 8. The state hopes to keep this number at 5,000 or above.

Testing details

The state coronavirus information page said that 1,269,523 tests have been processed as of Monday, 6,741 more than reported on Sunday.

The 1,487 cases represent 21.04 percent of the newly reported tests on Monday.

DOH provided the number of newly reported cases on Monday by county.

464 new cases in Bernalillo County
59 new cases in Chaves County
17 new cases in Cibola County
2 new cases in Colfax County
51 new cases in Curry County
3 new cases in De Baca County
201 new cases in Doña Ana County
54 new cases in Eddy County
9 new cases in Grant County
2 new cases in Guadalupe County
2 new cases in Hidalgo County
75 new cases in Lea County
17 new cases in Lincoln County
3 new cases in Los Alamos County
36 new cases in Luna County
36 new cases in McKinley County
42 new cases in Otero County
6 new cases in Quay County
10 new cases in Rio Arriba County
10 new cases in Roosevelt County
93 new cases in Sandoval County
53 new cases in San Juan County
7 new cases in San Miguel County
92 new cases in Santa Fe County
3 new cases in Sierra County
6 new cases in Socorro County
20 new cases in Taos County
4 new cases in Torrance County
27 new cases in Valencia County
14 new cases among individuals held by federal agencies at the Otero County Prison Facility

DOH also provided the total number of cases, including those from Monday, by county.

DOH identified ten previously reported cases as duplicates (four in Bernalillo County, two in Chaves County, two in Santa Fe County, one in Doña Ana County and one in San Juan County). These have been corrected and removed from the totals.

Bernalillo County: 14,226
Catron County: 10
Chaves County: 2,615
Cibola County: 806
Colfax County: 65
Curry County: 2,025
De Baca County: 8
Doña Ana County: 8,434
Eddy County: 1,907
Grant County: 247
Guadalupe County: 56
Harding County: 1
Hidalgo County: 133
Lea County: 2,638
Lincoln County: 461
Los Alamos County: 70
Luna County: 1,413
McKinley County: 5,044
Mora County: 18
Otero County: 743
Quay County: 135
Rio Arriba County: 651
Roosevelt County: 628
Sandoval County: 2,539
San Juan County: 4,164
San Miguel County: 245
Santa Fe County: 2,518
Sierra County: 163
Socorro County: 330
Taos County: 360
Torrance County: 138
Union County: 47
Valencia County: 1,340

DOH reported the following numbers of COVID-19 cases among individuals held by federal agencies at the following facilities:

Cibola County Correctional Center: 348
Otero County Prison Facility: 417
Otero County Processing Center: 191
Torrance County Detention Facility: 44

DOH reported the following numbers of COVID-19 cases among individuals held by the New Mexico Corrections Department at the following facilities:

Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Valencia County: 160
Guadalupe County Correctional Facility: 3
Lea County Correctional Facility: 112
Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility in Union County: 10
Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County: 11
Otero County Prison Facility: 472
Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County: 69
Roswell Correctional Center: 213
Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Doña Ana County: 56
Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Cibola County: 5

DOH has identified at least one positive COVID-19 case in residents and/or staff in the past 28 days in 85 long-term care facilities, the same number as reported on Sunday.