SANTA FE (Associated Press) New Mexico is preparing to start giving COVID-19 vaccine shots to children between ages 5 to 11, with the state set to receive.
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy looks on as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham reads a proclamation honoring Shannon Allen, a doctor at the Nor-Lea Hospital District in Lovington, during a Tuesday event in Santa Fe. The governor honored eight individuals for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Eddie Moore/Journal)
SANTA FE More than 96% of New Mexico’s new COVID-19 cases since February have occurred in individuals that have not been fully vaccinated, top state health officials said Wednesday.
Human Services Secretary David Scrase also said during a briefing with reporters that an even larger share of recent deaths related to the virus more than 98% over the last five months were unvaccinated individuals.
Project helps improve identification of Native American remains and resolve missing persons cases By Mary Beth King July 12, 2021
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) visited the Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) at The University of New Mexico recently to see the work being done by forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar and her team to improve the identification of Native American remains and resolve missing persons cases.
Edgar worked with many at UNM to create the New Mexico Decedent Image Database (NMDID), which includes thousands of whole-body CT scans. Each scan contains about 10,000 images of a single body. The scans are valuable in many research areas, including developing methods to help make positive identifications of unknown deceased people. Anthropologists compare unknown individuals to data about known individuals, narrowing the pool of missing persons for comparison using estimates of sex, age, and other characteristics. But in some cases, such as for Nativ
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