SANTA FE – New Mexico Social Services Secretary David Scrase and Department of Children and Family Secretary Brian Blalock provided an update on COVID-19’s public fitness emergency Wednesday at a media webinar.
They discussed an early launch of the vaccine in November, an expected need for intellectual fitness care and state readiness criteria, a set of goals New Mexico uses to dictate its reopening, including capacity, tactile search time, virus transmission rate, and hospital capacity.
New Mexico’s last public fitness ordinance came into effect on August 29 and allowed indoor restaurants to re-open to a capacity of 25%, increased catering capacity to 75%, and allowed devoted places of worship to expand their capacity to 40% occupancy.
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It allowed museums with static exhibits to go back to 25% occupancy and to relax state restrictions on public gatherings. Now, other people can combine into teams of up to 10 others.
Five days after the new order began, state officials revealed that New Mexico was still meeting its reopening parameters. When reporters asked Scrase if this meant that new reopenings would likely soon be, such as camping at night in state parks or increasing commercial capacity, he said talks took a daily stand on restrictions that could simply be eased.
He said the state could simply expand the types of out-of-state travel that are exempt from the state’s 14-day quarantine, but warned that this would inevitably lead to a build-up of cases.
What will inevitably lead to an increase in cases will be the resumption of face-to-face learning in school districts, while some local districts said they would stick to e-learning after Labor Day and a state mandate would be lifted, he said. Scrase. The purpose of the state is to keep schools open for face-to-face training once they open.
“We owe it to us to do this right the first time, ” said Scrase.
Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart is expected to talk more about the public at a press conference on Thursday, September 3.
One-fifth of COVID-19 infections in New Mexico continue to occur among people age 20 to 29. The average 7-day COVID-19 case also continued to decline and stabilize.
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Evidence has come down, which Scrase attributed to weaker public demand.
“No one in the west of us does better,” the evidence added. West Virginia is the first state in the East to make it bigger than New Mexico, Scrase said.
Scrase said the state expects the vaccine to be temporarily implemented for physical care staff and long-term care citizens starting in November. The state convened a 60-person committee to determine the most productive way to distribute the vaccine.
On Wednesday, several media outlets reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised states to be able to distribute a vaccine until November 1.
The clerk said citizens would not be charged for the vaccine, but that it could be in the form of two injections within a few weeks of another. He said he didn’t anticipate a strong call for November and believed the state is ready. The vaccine distribution infrastructure would suffice. Widespread availability can arrive in early January.
Scrase said it is vital for citizens, especially those with a history of illness in their families, not to delay other fitness care, and noted that the decrease in the number of colonoscopies is alarming, as the procedure can be used to trip over the colon. He said it is also vital that citizens vacute against the flu this fall as soon as possible.
Officials said more people reported suicidal thoughts and anxiety, but Scrase said, anecdotally, that therapists have reported that patients seem to respond more to telemedicine in some cases than in person. However, both Blalock and Scrase predicted an increase in the call for behavioral fitness care in New Mexico as a result of the pandemic.
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