Opposition to stay-at-home orders is the latest example of a history of powerful sheriffs, a history that stretches back to the end of slavery and the settling of the frontier.
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Unsafe, understaffed, overwhelmed
As COVID-19 sweeps through the Navajo Nation, a hospital is accused of endangering lives
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Most nursing homes violate infection control standards
Almost all of New Mexico’s 71 nursing homes in recent years have violated rules meant to protect their most vulnerable residents from infectious disease. In total, 85 percent of the state’s facilities “failed to provide and implement an infection prevention and control program,” according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A […]
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Tested
The Navajo Nation has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Indian Country. How will it cope?
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Designated hot spot
Nursing home for COVID-19 patients to be run by firm with history of safety violations and lawsuits
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The purge before the surge
In late January and early February, American public health experts warned about a possible COVID-19 epidemic, one that would almost certainly require a massive supply of hospital masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. At the same time, at least two major New Mexico hospitals were throwing those very items into the trash. “The hospital […]
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Easter in Hobbs
The day before Easter Sunday I drove to Hobbs to attend services at the evangelical ChooseLife Church. I was bracing for a service to be held in defiance of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s order banning mass gatherings at houses of worship in New Mexico. I dreaded the prospect of open conflict. I also dreaded the […]
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Behind the mask
Medical ethicist Mark Rothstein on safeguarding the privacy of COVID-19 patients
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When no place is home
When Jonas Palmer was ordered to move out of his dorm because of coronavirus, he was taken aback. Just two days earlier — while sitting in a classroom at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque — he’d been on a conference call with college president Sherry Allison. As Palmer recalls it, she assured […]
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Shelter in place
Domestic violence shelters have no shortage of beds, but reports of abuse are on the rise
