“I saw this pandemic coming well before January, and we began to lay out a planning strategy, including drive through testing, so we didn't wait for the feds,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told POLITICO
When the state reported three cases of Covid-19 in March, she, canceling state-run events and urging for other large gatherings to be shut down. Within a few days, the state had a drive-thru testing site setup. Now, New Mexico has kept its positive test rate down to around 3 percent — figures far lower than in neighboring Arizona and Texas, where the virus is popping up at more than 15 percent and 16 percent, respectively.
Now Lujan Grisham, the country’s first Latina Democrat elected governor who was said to be on the long list to be Joe Biden’s running mate, is tasked with helping the Democratic nominee reach Latino voters, especially in swing states like Arizona and New Mexico. How did New Mexico contain the Covid outbreak?
We were one of the first states to say asymptomatic individuals need to be tested, so that allowed us to do rapid responses. We go out immediately to a business or an organization that's got an infection. We clean it up, we work with them, we often close them down. We test everybody so that we can manage a spread, which is how, even when the rest of the bordering states were having the kind community spread that you can't get ahead of or control, we were able to crush our curve again.
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