New Mexico Department of Health
Top New Mexico Health Official Hopeful About Vaccine Rollout
- By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
The new state health chief says the arrival of vaccines in New Mexico marks a turning point and she s hopeful for a brighter day as people get vaccinated over the coming months.
Still, health Secretary Tracie Collins said Tuesday that while vaccination will prevent COVID-19 infection, there is more that needs to be learned about how effective inoculations will be in stemming transmission of the virus.
She says that means residents still need to wear masks, maintain social distancing, wash their hands often and keep up with other COVID-safe practices.
Dec. 15, 2020
I was speaking recently to Matt Dunne, founder of the Center on Rural Innovation, which promotes digital economic development in small-town America, and he was telling me about a Vermont community near his home with a great public library: “You could drive by on any Sunday and the parking lot would be full,” he said. “There was just one problem: The library was closed on Sundays.”
The parking lot was full of cars with kids doing their homework and adults doing their office work using the wireless connectivity spilling out of the empty building because their rural homes lacked high-speed broadband. Alas, stories abound of rural Americans going to Subway sandwich shops and Dairy Queens in search of free Wi-Fi.
XE Market Analysis: North America - Dec 16, 2020
The dollar has seen a renewed decline, which has come amid a backdrop of risk-on positioning in global markets with investors not waiting to participate in the 2021 reflation trade . The DXY dollar index dropped to a new 32-month low at 90.13. EUR-USD concurrently rallied above 1.2200 for the first time since April 2018. USD-JPY, now amid its fourth down day out of the last five, has ebbed to a five-week low at 103.27. The pair s nine-month lows, seen last month at 103.17-19, are back in scope. There looks to have been a degree of position trimming in CAD-JPY, which has been a popular long lately, being a strong correlate of the reflation theme in global markets. The cross is showing a decline of nearly 0.5% on the day so far. USD-CAD, meanwhile, has lifted back above 1.2700 after yesterday printing a 32-month low at 1.2686. While oil prices have been remaining perky, with Brent benchmark prices sustaining gains above $50, upside mom