Lujan Grisham: 23 more virus deaths, shattering previous high (NM)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | November 5, 2020 | Dan McKay and Dan Boyd

[CedarDave]

SANTA FE — New Mexico’s COVID-19 death rate exploded to a record high on Thursday, prompting Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to say she is planning new business restrictions.

She didn’t announce any immediate changes, but she said the state might tighten its public health order as soon as next week.

The governor didn’t announce any immediate changes to New Mexico’s public health order, which is set to expire next week, though she warned they may come if the trends don’t improve.

The governor bluntly warned that New Mexico is running out of hospital beds and scrambling to add more health care workers to help handle a deluge in hospitalizations.

“This is uncontrollable community spread and it leads to overwhelming our hospitals … and unnecessary deaths,” Lujan Grisham said during a news conference broadcast online.

The 23 new coronavirus deaths announced Thursday weren’t just a single-day record, but 64% more than the previous high in New Mexico.

The deaths — victims ranged in age from three people in their 40s to a Santa Fe County woman in her 100s — also boosted the state’s rolling seven-day average of virus-related deaths to roughly 12.6 deaths per day. That’s above the previous peak of 10 deaths a day in mid-May.

Human Services Secretary David Scrase said that nearly 17% of New Mexicans who have been hospitalized due to COVID-19 have ultimately died, a morbidity rate that’s higher than that of advanced cancer patients. Four-hundred virus patients are in New Mexico hospitals — more than four times as many as a month ago.

Meanwhile, the state has averaged about 887 new virus cases a day over the last week — more than three times as many as a month ago and the highest New Mexico has seen in the pandemic.

[CedarDave]

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[LegendHasIt]

I wonder if they will be as gleeful about reporting the deaths of people who will die of starvation or depression due to destroyed economies and destroyed families and societies.

[walkawaytoday]

Hypocrisy on display with @GOVMLG and other dems at after election party with no masks or social distancing.

https://twitter.com/randomcluster/status/1324766596661993474

[lepton]

The 23 new coronavirus deaths announced Thursday weren’t just a single-day record, but 64% more than the previous high in New Mexico.

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And doesn’t seem very high at all.

[sanjuanbob]

Notice the wording is virus “related” deaths. This is a shit related report.

[CedarDave]

More NM positive Covid-19 cases:

For the second time this week, the state broke its own record of daily COVID-19 cases with 1,287 recorded on Friday. That pushes the weekly average to its own record high of 928 cases a day.

Jodi McGinnis Porter, a Governor’s Office spokeswoman, said there were also six additional deaths from the virus. All of them were hospitalized but only two had underlying conditions, ...

NM tallies another record day of cases

[Tijeras_Slim]

Less than two million people in NM.