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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Native American Mascots, NMGOP on COVID-19 Response, “Herd Immunity” and Masks
Description: This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Matt Grubs talks to former U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, who now chairs the New Mexico Republican Party. The GOP has accused Governor Lujan Grisham of being too restrictive in her efforts to slow the growth of COVID-19.
Correspondent Megan Kamerick interviews Dr. Steven Bradfute, research assistant professor of UNM’s Center for Global Health and Department of Internal Medicine, on the long-term impacts of COVID-19 for survivors and the idea of “herd immunity.”
After decades of Native American advocates fighting the racial slur in the name o...