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By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
The first coronavirus vaccines have arrived in New Mexico as hospitals prepare to distribute doses to frontline health care workers.
The first vaccinations came Monday with health care workers at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe.
New Mexico will get more than 17,500 doses as part of the first wave. The shipments come as new COVID-19 cases have decreased but hospitalizations and deaths remain high.
On Sunday, New Mexico tied its previous record of 44 for the number of coronavirus-related deaths reported in a single day.
The statewide death toll inched toward 2,000 with an additional 21 deaths reported Monday. Meanwhile, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began has topped 121,200.
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The Homewise nonprofit, led by Mike Loftin, pictured here, will be able to expand its affordable housing programs thanks to a $10 million fund created by Anchorum St. Vincent and Enterprise Bank and Trust. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Santa Fe officialdom’s pledge to focus on housing issues has become front and center in recent months.
Just last week, the mayor and City Council took a stand against the over-saturation of Santa Fe by vacation rentals, a phenomenon that has reduced the number of homes available to local residents, increased real estate prices and spurred complaints of some downtown neighborhoods about being converted, essentially, into hotel space.