
21 that struck and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded Director Joel Souza. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department is investigating whether the Albuquerque film prop business PDQ Arm & Prop may have provided potentially live ammunition to the Rust film set, where Alec Baldwin fired a shot Oct.

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#RUST UPDATE UPDATE#
Christine Ross and Katrina Hotrum-Lopez, Secretary for the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department, will host a COVID-19 news update at 2 pm today on the Health Department’s Facebook page, which will also stream live with a Spanish language interpreter on Gov. In Santa Fe County, 97.1% of people 18 and older have had at least one dose and 84.3% are fully vaccinated.Īcting Health Secretary Dr. Among children ages 5-11, 16.2% have had at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine and 0.3% are fully vaccinated. In the 12-17-year-old age group, 64.6% of people have had at least one dose and 55.5% are fully inoculated.

Among that age group, 22.8% have had a booster shot. Anthony Fauci delivered a comparable message yesterday during a White House briefing on Omicron, which has not yet been detected in the US, noting that “the effect of this variant on transmission, severity of disease, and how well current vaccines treatment work remains speculative, regardless of what we’re hearing in the press.”Ĭurrently, 85.7% of New Mexicans 18 years and older have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 74.4% are fully vaccinated. And so my ask today is that those of us that are still unvaccinated really think about what we are allowing the virus to do in our communities.”ĭr. “But I think the best thing we can do at this point in time is to double down on the tools we know work against this variant and all variants of COVID. “I know there is a lot of concern about new COVID variants,” McKee said, referencing the Omicron variant. Rohini McKee said both their facilities remain above capacity and urged residents to seek out vaccinations and booster shots while continue observing COVID-safe practices, such as mask-wearing, hand-washing and social distancing. Jason Mitchell and University of New Mexico Hospital Chief Quality and Safe Officer Dr. In an update on hospital conditions yesterday morning, Presbyterian Healthcare Services Chief Medical Officer Dr. Santa Fe County has now had 184 deaths there have been 5,367 statewide.Īs of yesterday, 633 people were hospitalized with COVID-19. The state also announced 12 new deaths, 11 of them recent, including a male in his 30s from Santa Fe County who had been hospitalized and had underlying conditions. DOH reported the statewide test positivity rate at 12.7%, well above the 7.5% target. Bernalillo County had 340 new cases, followed by Doña Ana County with 157 and Sandoval County with 117.

New Mexico health officials yesterday reported 1,132 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases to 314,264 DOH designated 267,030 of those cases as recovered.
