The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have already arrived in New Mexico.
Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe received its first shipment of the first COVID-19 vaccine Monday.
Christus St. Vincent was one of 145 hospitals in the country to receive the vaccine Monday, according to the hospital’s Facebook page. The hospital began inoculating its hospital workers the same day.
Trucks rolled out early Tuesday morning from a state Department of Health warehouse carrying 7,800 doses to smaller, rural hospitals around the state, according to DOH.
Lovelace Chief Medical Officer Dr. Vesta Sandoval said Lovelace Hospital would receive the vaccine Tuesday and would start inoculating front line health care workers Wednesday morning.
Lucky. Blessed. Fortunate.
Those were words used by medical staff at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center on Monday after they were the first people in New Mexico to receive Pfizerâs long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine.
The five staff members were greeted with a round of applause from fellow health care professionals following inoculations in a conference room at the hospital.
A total of 112 Christus St. Vincent staff members received the first shot of the two-part vaccine by the end of the day as the state launched what is expected to be a months-long campaign to provide vaccines to residents across New Mexico.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The New Mexico Department of Health reported that 860 COVID-19 patients were in the hospital Monday. All of our hospitals are well above 100%. So, in order to get to a point where hospitals are not completely stressed, many hospitals work at about 85% occupancy, said Dr. Irene Agostini of UNM Hospital. In New Mexico, often we are not able to do that because of the number of beds we have, but at this point, we are quite a ways away with hospitals, certainly the University of New Mexico and all of our colleagues being well over 100%. That s why I think this red, yellow and green will be very helpful. When we are all back in the green, our hospitals will, I believe, be able to take a breather from what s going on now.
Lovelace Medical is scheduling staff to get FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine in days We re being allocated for our health system, approximately 2,500 doses, per week, for the first three weeks, Dr. Cole said. Share Updated: 1:08 PM MST Dec 13, 2020
Lovelace Medical is scheduling staff to get FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine in days We re being allocated for our health system, approximately 2,500 doses, per week, for the first three weeks, Dr. Cole said. Share Updated: 1:08 PM MST Dec 13, 2020
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Show Transcript STAFF AT LOVELACE HOSPITAL BEHIND ME SAY THEIR COLLEAGUES ARE EXHAUSTED PHYSICALLY MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY, BUT TONIGHT THEY SAY THEY FEEL HOPEFUL HEALTH CARE WORKERS. SAY THE COVID-19 VACCINE GETTING APPROVAL FEELS LIKE THE SHINING STAR ON TOP OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE. I’M GOING INTO THE NEW YEAR IT GIVES US HOPE YOU KNOW THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO START TO LOOK WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT HAVING A VACCINE WE ARE VERYPEXC AND WE A
Covid-19 Cases Are Rising in 63% of U.S. Counties
A Covid-19 testing booth getting disinfecting at a Los Angeles testing site earlier this week.Jae C. Hong/Associated Press
The coronavirus is about as widespread in the U.S. as it has ever been, as newly reported infections hover near record highs. And governors across the country are pulling emergency levers to ward off overrunning hospitals and warning that activities once considered safe must be avoided.
Reported Covid-19 cases are increasing in 36 states and 63% of U.S. counties, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Johns Hopkins University data.