By David Smith
After nine long months in the hospital fighting COVID, a four-year-old girl has recovered.
Stella Martin tested positive on April 24th, 2020 and spent over five months in the pediatric intensive care unit at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque before being transferred to UNM’s Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital in October.
By David Smith
After nine long months in the hospital fighting COVID, a four-year-old girl has recovered.
Stella Martin tested positive on April 24th, 2020 and spent over five months in the pediatric intensive care unit at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque before being transferred to UNM’s Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital in October.
COVID-19 leaves 4-year-old girl paralyzed Share Updated: 6:58 AM CST Jan 28, 2021 By KOAT Staff Share Updated: 6:58 AM CST Jan 28, 2021
Hide Transcript Share Updated: 6:58 AM CST Jan 28, 2021 By KOAT Staff A 4-year-old girl is paralyzed after she was diagnosed with Acute Transverse Myelitis as a result of COVID-19, the girl s mother tells sister station KOAT. KOAT spoke to 4-year-old Stella Martin and her mother, Cassandra Yazzie, a day after Stella was finally released from the hospital after an 8-month long hospitalization. Yazzie says in April, Stella was playing on the bed when she ran to her mom complaining of back pain. From there she says the young girl “went limp” in her arms. Yazzie rushed Stella to San Juan Regional Medical Center, where she was quickly airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. Doctors diagnosed Stella with COVID-19 and shortly after she was diagnosed with Acute Transverse Myelit
Hospitals prepare to implement crisis standards Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 9, 2020
New Mexico Human Services Department Secretary Dr. David Scrase announced during a press update Tuesday that the state is preparing to implement its crisis standards of care plan, which establishes resource allocation protocols for hospitals that are increasingly overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.
The state’s plan is based on a national framework originally developed in response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009 and codified nationally in 2018, when it was also adopted by New Mexico. Earlier this year, the state’s medical advisory team undertook an update of that plan in an effort led by the state Department of Health informed by 140 health experts divided into work groups. One of their primary tasks was to grapple with the ethical issues of rationing care if resources became so scarce that not all pe
By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press
New Mexico is partnering with a national health care company to provide free, at-home COVID-19 test kits.
State health officials said Tuesday that the kits can be ordered via Vault Medical Services website. All that s needed is an internet connection, email address and a photo.
Recipients can mail the sample back for processing after self-administering the test with a virtual testing supervisor. Results will be returned within 24 to 48 hours of being received by the lab.
State officials acknowledged the lack of broadband access around New Mexico and said the new at-home option is meant to bolster the in-person testing clinics that have been operating since the pandemic began.