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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: COVID and New Mexico's Kids, Divestment, East Mountain Wells Still Drying & Students Rally for Fossil Fuel Divestment | 11.8.21
Description: The FDA and CDC have both approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11. How will the rollout look here in New Mexico? The Line panel addresses the decisions ahead for parents, what this could mean for masking mandates and the potential impact on the push to get older New Mexicans booster shots.
In 2017, the Our Land team visited the Petrie family in the East Mountains. Their well had run dry, and they weren’t the only ones experiencing that problem. At that time, we also met with Phillip Rust, a hydrogeologist with Bernalillo County, who was...