ALBUQUERQUE – Weekly shipments of two vaccines for COVID-19 continue to increase, with New Mexico expecting 72,510 doses next week nearly 4,700 more than the previous shipment.
State Health Secretary-designate Tracie Collins and Human Services Secretary David Scrase, both physicians, gave a joint progress update in a video news conference Wednesday afternoon.
New Mexico has received 454,350 doses in total of vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, and has administered all but 51 of them, per data from the health department making New Mexico the third-ranked state nationwide for using its vaccine allotment.
Both vaccines require two doses, spaced weeks apart, for full vaccination. Collins reported that New Mexico has now fully vaccinated 143,578, or 7 percent of New Mexico s total population.
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Is Lincoln County vaccinating quickly enough?
Data from the New Mexico Department of Health revealed comparatively low percentage of Lincoln County residents had been offered a COVID-19 vaccine.
New Mexico ranks high among U.S. states in getting vaccines to its residents, with 365,297 total doses administered and 101,080 receiving the required second shot, as of Wednesday.
A day earlier, data from the New Mexico Department of Health calculated 15.3 percent of state residents have received at least their first dose and 5.5 percent fully vaccinated. In Eddy County, 4,710 individuals were fully or partially vaccinated.
Across the U.S., 10.3 percent had received one dose and 3.3 percent were fully vaccinated.
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