January 22, 2021
Hospital stonewalls release of COVID numbers, even as situation improves Written by Geoffrey Plant on January 22, 2021
After peaking two weeks ago, Grant County’s coronavirus infection rate appears to be on the decline, and markedly fewer new positive test results were reported here over the past week.
That’s likely good news for Gila Regional Medical Center, which saw an influx of COVID-19 patients over the past couple of months as the virus surged in New Mexico. However, leadership at the county-owned nonprofit hospital continues to refuse to make public statistical information that would give an indication of how severely the pandemic is affecting the facility, and the tens of thousands of people who live in the community it serves even in the face of a District Court action by the Daily Press.
Lawsuit: COVID-19 is no emergency’ Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 30, 2020
Mule Creek attorney Jonathan Diener has joined forces with Santa Fe lawyer Ana Garner to file a pro bono federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court that argues New Mexico’s public health orders are unconstitutional, and are based on what a 125-page complaint describes as the “invalid” results of polymerase chain reaction, or “PCR,” tests that are commonly used to diagnose individuals with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The lawsuit was filed in Albuquerque on Dec. 21, and is assigned to federal Magistrate Judge Jerry H. Ritter. “The bottom line is this: there is no emergency,” the attorneys allege in their complaint, which asks the courts to declare unconstitutional the restrictions in place under state public health orders. Diener represents the owners of the Jalisco Cafe, which earlier
Health leaders say New Mexico on downside of virus surge; Doña Ana County has just 1 new death
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SANTA FE, New Mexico New Mexico health officials reported an additional 1,272 confirmed Covid-19 cases Tuesday, pushing the statewide total since the pandemic began to more than 132,000. Another 23 deaths also were reported, bringing that tally to more than 2,200.
Doña Ana County had just one of the state s latest deaths, a woman in her 70s who was hospitalized, to bring their tally to 261. The county also had 140 of the state s new cases for a total of 16,374 to date.
Top health officials said during an afternoon briefing that New Mexico appears to be on the downside of the latest surge as the seven-day rolling average of confirmed cases has been declining. While test positivity remains high, it s lower than it was just a couple of weeks ago.
December 11, 2020
Gov: Reset slowed virus, but ‘we have a long way to go’ Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 11, 2020
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N.M. Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase suggested during his and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s weekly COVID-19 press update that residents should consider completing a “New Mexico Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment” form, otherwise known as an advance directive. “You don’t want to put your family in a position where it’s a dire emergency and you haven’t had that conversation” about “what we want at the end of life,” Scrase said, encouraging folks to download the form at nmmost.org.
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