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Walgreens pharmacy technician Ashley Miranda administers a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to Nicole Oglethorpe at the National Hispanic Cultural Center on Wednesday. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. About 2,000 people who have registered on the New Mexico Department of Health’s website for a COVID vaccination and who have been given an appointment confirmation are expected to participate in a Friday vaccination event in Rio Rancho, city spokeswoman Annemarie Garcia said.
The daylong event at the Rio Rancho Events Center, 3001 Civic Center NE, the only vaccination venue in Rio Rancho, is targeting people who have been waiting to receive their first COVID shot, Garcia said Wednesday.
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state health officials insist New Mexico’s centralized state vaccine distribution system – one of the few in the country – is random, fair and equitable.
There’s little doubt it is amazingly efficient – as of Wednesday, the Department of Health says 450,299 of the 454,350 shots the state has received have been put into New Mexico arms. That’s 99.1%, which makes our state a top performer. The Department of Health says we’re third best in the nation.
Now it appears the state is trying to rein in providers who have been giving the vaccine to desperate New Mexicans without requiring them to go through the Department of Health for an appointment. The state health officials say they are working to “onboard” these providers into the state system, and that seems wrong-headed.