New Mexico Secretary of Social Services David Scrase and Interim State Epidemiologist Chad Smelser of the State Department of Health update the state’s COVID-19 modeling and reopening criteria on Tuesday.
The presentation was made through a live broadcast of the Human Service Facebook page.
New Mexico recently gained positive reviews, adding a September 15 article in Scientific American congratulating the state on making decisions on public physical fitness prescriptions about knowledge and its widespread testing.
New Mexico is among the 10 most sensitive states for generalized verification, with a relatively low verification positivity rate of 3. 2%.
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With 28 labs in the state processing tests lately, a total of 872,331 tests conducted on Tuesday.
The DOH announced new instances on Tuesday, with the cumulative total of instances amounting to 27,790, of which 15,586 (or 56%) have been designated as recovered.
However, the road to recovery can be long. Scrase noted that it suggests that many patients suffer from lung damage or lasting changes.
The disease is caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and Scrase noted that studies in patients who survived the 2002-04 SARS outbreak have shown that respiratory disorders and chronic fatigue make it difficult for some patients to return to their pictures. they were unable to repaint for one to three years after infection.
There were 69 patients hospitalized in New Mexico and 14 with fans, according to Tuesday’s update. Melser noted at the briefing that the percentage of patients hospitalized with fans has been around 20%.
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With deaths in Bernalillo, Eddy and Santa Fe counties announced Tuesday, the total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the state reached 854.
The infection rate has risen to 1. 11, above the control of 1. 05 or less used by government officials to determine New Mexico’s willingness to public fitness restrictions. -Public protective devices for medical personnel and patients admitted to the hospital and requiring intensive care.
The trend may be consistent with social gatherings over The Hard Work Day weekend, Scrase suggested, although he said an increase in the number of cases was expected as more activities resumed.
“As we reopen, we’ll see more cases because we see more cases that will mean a slight increase in the rate of spread,” Scrase said.
Travelling, Smelser noted, has been something in recent activities known through other people who tested positive for contacts.
“People who move and from one user to another lead to greater transmission,” Smelser said.
Scrase reported that 251 patients had been discharged from a COVID-19 long-term care center at canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center in Albuquerque, while 32 had died there. The center is a collaboration between the state and Genesis HealthCare.
Scrase noted that on September 17, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued consulting lines for nursing homes recommending that check positivity rates throughout the county be used for consultants’ policies on authorization of inland visits, to the technique new Mexico used in August.
He and Smelser provided in-depth research into the data, which is included in the State Department of Health epidemiological reports in cv. NMhealth. org/epidemiology-reports.
Scrase cautioned that as some New Mexico schools begin to resume in-person education, keeping them open calls for youth to stay home if they have flu-like symptoms or symptoms consistent with COVID-19; If they test positive for the disease, even without symptoms; have close contact with anyone who is HIV positive or who lives with who has symptoms and is being tested.
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Smelser noted that existing knowledge indicated that 30-40% of COVID-19 cases in the state were asymptomatic, that other people carried the virus without symptoms of the disease.
“Several states have just opened their schools big,” Scrase said, causing epidemics in those states, adding to neighboring New Mexico, Texas.
In New Mexico, on the other hand, some school districts voted to continue distance education during the fall semester, even in counties with low check positivity rates.
Scrase noted that in New Mexico, there is a higher rate of multigenerational families living together, which means that many school-age youth with adults are at increased threat due to age and / or underlying conditions.
In particular, he noted the knowledge that it seems that young blacks and Hispanics in New Mexico are much more likely to live in those families than white residents.
Trends in knowledge also recommend that in young adults, only an underlying condition combined with COVID-19 had dangers comparable to those of middle-aged adults without underlying conditions, illustrating that COVID-19 becomes more harmful in combination with other conditions.
Obesity doubled the likelihood of a COVID-19 patient being hospitalized, while expanding the mortality rates of these patients by 50%, as presented at the press conference.
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The pandemic first affected the Amerindian populations of HardEst state, and the Navajo nation had the highest rates of infection per capita in May.
The reversal of new infections in the Navajo Nation, which includes the northwest corner of the state and parts of Arizona and Utah, was received Monday by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a prominent member of the whites. Working group on domestic coronavirus.
Fauci said the Navajo Nation’s adherence to COVID-19 protection practices had “shown that when such public aptitude measures are taken, an outbreak of serious infection can be tackled. “
Meanwhile, Scrase said Tuesday that new instances now peaked among the state’s Hispanic population.
Scrase and Smelser said knowledge of influenza transmissions from southern hemisphere countries may bode well for New Mexico, yet suggested that New Mexicoans be vacuous against the flu.
Knowledge recommends that countries that adhere firmly to COVID-19 preventive measures, such as dressing in masks, keeping others at a physical distance, and washing their hands in general, also enjoy lower influenza transmission.
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Smelser is under pressure that vaccinating citizens is of “paramount importance” because even small increases in influenza amid COVID-19 activity would create tension in hospitals and put more medical workers at risk.
“Please wait,” Scrase suggested to the public, fearful that immunization rates in training years have fallen in recent months. Annual vaccination rates in April fell by 60, consistent with last year’s penny.
Regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, the state has a vaccination plan that will be presented to the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A timetable for the availability of a proven vaccine is not yet available; However, Scrase said that when ready, New Mexico will conduct an independent review of the vaccine approval procedure before distributing it.
However, Scrase said this meant that New Mexico would conduct separate trials of a vaccine.
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