Surgeon General thanks health care workers in New Mexico
CEDAR ATTANASIO, Associated Press / Report for America
July 13, 2021
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) Surgeon General Vivek Murthy met with New Mexico officials and spoke at an awards ceremony honoring health care workers.
Murthy thanked nurses, doctors, and a laboratory manager for their work fighting the pandemic, but warned that the task of caring for the sick and inoculating the hesitant is not over.
“We are so incredibly grateful, Murthy told health care workers. “But we need your help in the weeks and months ahead.”
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham thanked eight health care workers at the event, issuing them individual gubernatorial proclamations on the second floor of the New Mexico History Museum.
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Marvin Martinez, a traditional potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo, wraps an item purchased Friday by Kathi Sanders of Tucson, Ariz., under the Palace of the Governors’ portal. Artists at the Santa Fe Plaza site are still forced to keep a COVID-19 safe distance, reducing the number of sellers. Nearby city vendors are not as restricted. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
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After more than a year, Patricia Anderson, a Navajo jeweler from Cochiti Pueblo, was eager to take her products to market again.
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