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COVID-19 Updates
Contact our Ask-a-Doctor or check out our resources for guidance on COVID-19 vaccine information.
Keep Your Child Healthy
CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older and boosters for everyone 5 years and older, if eligible.
Parents with Questions
Look over the commonly asked Questions for Children Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
AAP Recommendation
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends COVID-19 vaccination for all children and adolescents 6 months of age and older who do not have contraindications.
COVID-19 VACCINE REGISTER
Get Vaccinated
Get started with the New Mexico Department of Health COVID-19 Vaccination Registration System
NM COVID-19 COUNT
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Total cases reported: numbers are raw data based on information the state receives.
VACCINATION REGISTRATION
Create a profile, schedule an appointment for a vaccination, or get more resources and information.
About COVID-19 Vaccination
Highly Effective At Prevention
COVID-19 vaccination does reduces the risk of getting COVID-19 and protects you against severe illness. In fact, 9.5 out of 10 people who contract COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
Vaccines Are Safe to be Administered
Clinical trials involving thousands of participants are used to investigate possible vaccines. Studies generate scientific data that the FDA uses to determine vaccine safety.
Helps to Minimize Hospitalizations
Vaccine effectiveness studies offer growing evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines protect as well in real-world conditions as in clinical trials. Studies show it reduces the risks of COVID.
Vaccines Keep Our Loved Ones Safe
Vaccination does reduce spread of disease, and helps protect you and the people around you. Getting vaccinated allows us to visit loved ones who are more vulnerable.
Call the NMDOH Coronavirus Hotline
Wondering about the truth of some common rumors you may have heard about the Covid-19 vaccine?
Ready to Get Vaccinated?
Have Some Questions?
COVID-19 Related Inquiries: covid.vaccines@state.nm.us
For COVID-19 Related Questions: 1-855-600-3453
For Non-Health Related COVID-19 Questions: 1-833-551-0518
What You Need to Know
COVID-19 Myth or Fact?
Wondering the truth about some common rumors you may have heard about the Covid-19 vaccine?
Will the Vaccine Give Me Covid-19?
Myth or Fact?
Myth! There's No Virus in the Covid-19 Vaccine.
The vaccine teaches the immune system how to recognize and fight the virus.
Get the Facts
Does the Vaccine Cause Infertility?
Myth or Fact?
Myth! Unproven
There's no evidence of ANY VACCINE, including this vaccine, causing fertility or difficulty getting pregnant.
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Does the Vaccine Alter Your DNA?
Myth or Fact?
Myth! Vaccines don’t work that way. Genetic material never enters the nucleus of our cells, which is where our DNA is kept.
Get the Facts
COVID-19 Toolkit
We now have many tools to fight COVID: masking, vaccines, treatment, testing, and social distancing. We have reached a new place in New Mexico where we can lift nearly all public health requirements that prevented many COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. It is now possible for us to manage COVID-19 in our homes and in our communities.
This toolkit provides COVID-19 support and guidance for New Mexico communities and individuals. Provided by the New Mexico Department of Health.
Tests Performed in New Mexico
450000
Current Hospitalizations
25000
Total Recovered from COVID-19
6000
Ask a Doctor
Dr. Duane L. Ross, MD | Medical Director at True Health New Mexico and NMBLC Physical Health Subcommittee
Dr. Duane Ross has served as as a Primary Care Physician, Hospitalist, Medical Director of PACE, and Medical Director of Managed Medicaid at BCBS before his current position at True Health New Mexico. He also serves on the NMBLC Physical Health subcommittee.
If you would like answers to some of your health-related questions, submit those questions and we will respond in a timely manner.
Dr. Stephanie Garcia, MD | Healthcare in a COVID World
Dr. Stephanie Garcia, MD | History of Medicine and the COVID-19 Vaccine
Dr. Stephanie Garcia, MD | This Is Not That
WE UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS
SO THEN, WHAT IS IT?
“Black communities have been the most disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 virus. Black and African-Americans have COVID-19 death rates of more than 2.7 times that of White Americans, but vaccination rates in Whites are two times higher than in Black and African-Americans. So why aren’t we getting the vaccine? Black people recall our nation’s history of racism in medical research and in medical care as key reasons to their hesitancy with getting the COVID-19 vaccine. We understand your concerns, but this is not that.”
NEW MEXICO
Find a COVID-19 Test in New Mexico
Knowing if you have COVID-19 can help you seek proper treatment and prevent you from spreading the virus to your family and community.
Visit Your Local Pharmacy
At-home COVID-19 tests and PCR Laboratory COVID-19 tests are available at pharmacies throughout New Mexico at low or no cost with insurance.
Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests through Project ACT
Your zip code is eligible to order free at-home COVID-19 tests through Project Act, a partnership between the state of NM and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests through Federal Program
Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order free at-home COVID-19 tests through the federal government. You will receive 4 free tests per household.
Host a Vaccine Event
Your zip code is eligible to order free at-home COVID-19 tests through Project Act, a partnership between the state of NM and the Rockefeller Foundation.
WORD ON THE STREET
Alfondso's COVID-19 Story
Every time I read about, view a video of a person stricken with Covid19 Delta Variant, it hits home and I immediately have compassion for their suffering.
Disclaimer: I was Unvaccinated.
It was almost 6 weeks ago I went to the doctor with a cough that was persistent for 2 months prior, thought it was just allergies. All the while my lungs were unknowingly slowly being damaged.
On August 18 I went to a Presbyterian Now urgent care to see what was going on because I couldn’t take it anymore, after being tested for Covid19–the test indeed came back positive for Covid19 Delta Variant/Pneumonia. I was given No antibiotics, nothing….
Digital Stories
View our digital videos to hear real life stories of individuals experience with COVID-19.
Resource Library
NEW MEXICO DATA & RESOURCES
OUTREACH & EDUCATION RESOURCES
NMDOH COVID-19 & VACCINE RESOURCES
View the latest updates and tools on COVID-19 and vaccines from the New Mexico Department of Health.
OUTREACH & EDUCATION
View tools and printable materials for COVID-19 vaccine communication efforts.
COVID-19 & VACCINE EQUITY DATA
Stay up to date on the latest vaccine data.
RESEARCH & ARTICLES
See the latest evidence-based practices and research on vaccine equity.
STATE HEALTH EQUITY COMMITTEE
View notes, meeting recordings, and other items from the State Health Equity Committee that meets every other Friday at 1 PM MST.
PROPOSAL, ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION TOOLS
View sample proposals and tools for conducting surveys and evaluations on vaccine equity.