December 16, 2020

Recap of New Mexico COVID-19 news (12/16/20 edition)

This morning recap of COVID-19 news from New Mexico is available in a free email every weekday. Sign up here. See all of our COVID-19 coverage here. Note: The daily COVID-19 newsletter will take a vacation from Dec. 21 until Jan. 4. The state of New Mexico crossed yet another grim milestone on Tuesday—2,000 COVID-19 deaths. […]

Matthew Reichbach

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See all of our COVID-19 coverage here.

Note: The daily COVID-19 newsletter will take a vacation from Dec. 21 until Jan. 4.
The state of New Mexico crossed yet another grim milestone on Tuesday—2,000 COVID-19 deaths. Read more here.
The plaintiffs in the Yazzie-Martinez lawsuit said the state needs to do more to provide computers and internet access to students during remote learning. Read more here.
The secretary-designate of the state DOH spoke about the start of vaccine distribution in New Mexico on Tuesday, just her second day on the job. Read more here.
- Seniors who don’t live at congregate care facilities want to know when they will be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine, KOB-TV reported.
The state said it had to discard 75 doses of the vaccine because it potentially overheated during a delivery to Union County General Hospital, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The vaccines must be kept at about 100 degrees below zero.
Frontline workers at Holy Cross Medical Center received their vaccinations on Tuesday, the Taos News reported.
Navajo Nation health officials reported 160 new COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths related to the disease, as well as 77 communities with uncontrolled spread.
A 44-year-old third grade teacher from New Mexico died with COVID-19, KRQE-TV reported.
At-home virus tests will be available soon, the state’s health secretary-designate said on Tuesday, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.
There were 70 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among detainees and staff at the San Juan County Adult Detention Center, the Farmington Daily Times reported.
A survey of Las Cruces Public Schools found that two-thirds of parents want their children in a hybrid learning model, but only about half of staff of schools want to do so, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.
The City of Albuquerque went over its plan for COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday, The Paper reported.
The $1,200 payments for unemployed New Mexicans have started to go out, KOB-TV reported.
The City of Las Vegas extended its curfew through Jan. 15, the Las Vegas Optic reported.
The Santa Fe Reporter wrote about the NOVID app that the city of Santa Fe is using to aid against COVID-19.
The number of visitors to Santa Fe dropped 42 percent in 2020 from 2019 between MArch and November, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
As travel—especially by air—has plummeted, Southwest Airlines issued a filing that said the company could furlough more than 80 employees next year, Albuquerque Business First reported.