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Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Lindsay Fox, an emergency doctor who last worked at a hospital in Newark, New Jersey, saw as many as 100 COVID-19 positive patients come through her department in a shift. During the height of the pandemic, she would walk past a refrigerated truck full of dead bodies every day.
HILLSBORO, N.M. – For much of 2020, it was as though the pandemic raging across the globe never existed in this 144-year-old hamlet at the base of the Black Range mountains in southwest New Mexico.
At least that’s how it might have appeared to an outsider visiting from a big city.
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HILLSBORO, N.M. – For much of 2020, it was as though the pandemic raging across the globe never existed in this 144-year-old hamlet at the base of the Black Range mountains in southwest New Mexico.
At least that’s how it might have appeared to an outsider visiting from a big city.
The ZIP code home to Hillsboro and its neighboring communities of Kingston and Lake Valley has only four recorded cases of COVID-19. Vast stretches of open desert, ponderosa pine forest and unmotorized wilderness dwarf any human settlement.
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