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A major rollout for a novel coronavirus vaccine, once a distant glimmer, could materialize by spring. But that timeline gives the state a narrow and perhaps harrowing deadline to tackle the many challenges in dispensing it to New Mexicans. Health officials say they must devise ways to distribute vaccines to far-flung rural areas, overcome cultural barriers and expand limited medical personnel already strained from the spiking COVID-19 outbreak â all with a budget that is tighter because of decreased tax revenue during the pandemic. Officials have expressed some confidence in surmounting the obstacles. They drafted a preliminary 60-page plan that describes the steps they are taking â and the work yet to be done â to implement an effective vaccine program. ....