February 19, 2021

State streak of fewer than 500 newly reported COVID-19 cases continues

DOH reported 318 new COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths on Friday, following 411 new cases and 18 additional deaths on Thursday. DOH has now found 182,050 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and reported 3,599 deaths related to the disease. Of the confirmed cases, 128,299 are designated as recovered by DOH. As […]

Matthew Reichbach

DOH reported 318 new COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths on Friday, following 411 new cases and 18 additional deaths on Thursday.

DOH has now found 182,050 cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and reported 3,599 deaths related to the disease. Of the confirmed cases, 128,299 are designated as recovered by DOH.

As of Friday, DOH reported 278 people were hospitalized for COVID-19, the fewest number since late October. This could include those from other states who are hospitalized in New Mexico, but would not include New Mexico residents who are hospitalized in other states.

DOH provided some information on each of the 19 newly reported deaths Friday.

A female in her 50s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions. She was a resident of the Advanced Health Care facility in Albuquerque.
A male in his 60s from Bernalillo County.
A second male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions who was a resident of the Sugar Hollow Assisted Living facility in Albuquerque.
A female in her 90s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 90s from Bernalillo County who was a resident of the Spanish Trails Rehabilitation Suites in Albuquerque.
A male in his 80s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Eddy County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 70s from Lea County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 50s from McKinley County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from McKinley County.
A female in her 50s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions. She was a resident of the Bloomfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bloomfield.
A male in his 60s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 80s from San Juan County who was a resident of the Bloomfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bloomfield.
A second male in his 80s from San Juan County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 90s from Santa Fe County who was a resident of the Kingston Residence of Santa Fe.
A male in his 70s from Taos County who was hospitalized.

And also the 18 newly reported deaths from Thursday.

A male in his 60s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Bernalillo County.
A male in his 80s from Bernalillo County who was hospitalized and was a resident of the Odelia Healthcare (Camino Healthcare) facility in Albuquerque.
A male in his 90s from Bernalillo County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Sandia Ridge Center in Albuquerque.
A male in his 60s from Curry County who had underlying conditions.
A female in her 40s from Doña Ana 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 male in his 70s from Doña Ana County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Eddy County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Grant County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Otero County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Otero County who had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Sandoval County who was hospitalized.
A male in his 70s from Sandoval County who had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Genesis Rio Rancho Center in Rio Rancho.
A female in her 60s from San Juan County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 70s from Santa Fe County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A male in his 60s from Valencia County who was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.
A female in her 80s from Valencia County who had underlying conditions.

DOH does not disclose which underlying condition any of the deceased had, only if one was present before death.

The most common underlying condition for those who died with COVID-19 was hypertension, followed by diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to the most recently available mortality update. Some of those who died had multiple comorbidities.

The New Mexico Environment Department’s Rapid Response COVID-19 Watchlist had 49 establishments as of Friday. These workplaces had two or more COVID-19 rapid responses in the last 14 days.

Testing details

The state coronavirus information page says the state has processed 2,586,662 tests as of Friday, 18,785 more than reported on Monday. The 729 positive cases on Thursday and Friday represented 3.88 percent of the newly reported tests, though this calculation is not the same as the one used by the state for its gating criteria, since it uses raw data, and counts all tests and not any potential duplicates.

DOH identified seven previously reported cases as duplicates, three previously reported cases that were not lab confirmed and one previously reported case that was determined to be an out-of-state resident. These have been corrected.

The total number of cases per county, as of Friday, are as follows: