Pediatric hospital units at New Mexico’s largest hospitals continue to fill due to an early surge of RSV and flu compounded by other viruses, including COVID. Health officials are not yet positive whether the early onset means the surge will also end sooner, but say it could peak in January and end in March.
Northwest New Mexico is a national hot spot of COVID according to the latest CDC data. Eight counties, including Bernalillo and Santa Fe, have high community levels of COVID19, which factors in hospitalization rates, while 23 additional counties show the highest levels of transmission. Flu cases are also rising rapidly.
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