Michelle Lujan Grisham on COVID in New Mexico, Navajo Nation Outbreak
The interview was during a rare slice of free time for Lujan Grisham, immediately after one of her daily 2 p.m. coronavirus meetings. The conversation had been rescheduled from the previous weekend so that she could see her family for the first time in well over a month. “COVID-19 is 190 percent of what I do every day,” she says.
Are you worried about the degree to which the protests over the killing of George Floyd have pushed COVID-19 out of the news and will lead people to disregard taking the kinds of precautions you have been stressing for months? You need to know where the virus is presenting itself so you can get people isolated immediately and reduce overall transmission. When you reduce transmission, you also reduce what we call the density of prevalence of the virus in a community, and then you can take other actions. If you can’t do testing, you’re flying blind. Too many people are infected by the time you know you’ve got a problem.
I knew it was going to be challenging. A lot of the federal secretaries have no government experience, and many of them have no experience in the area that they’re asked to lead. The White House can be responsive, but the problem is that it’s hit and miss because they don’t have a strong federal design. They’ve got 50 different things they’re working on at a time for 50 different governors, which is why constituents aren’t getting what they need.
The Navajo Nation has been hit particularly hard. Why has the outbreak been so bad there? What are some of the challenges in preventing it from getting worse in these parts of the state you don’t really have the same kind of jurisdiction over?
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