{"id":34112,"date":"2023-05-10T16:46:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/department-of-health-to-phase-out-daily-covid-19-epidemiology-report\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:16:17","slug":"department-of-health-to-phase-out-daily-covid-19-epidemiology-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/department-of-health-to-phase-out-daily-covid-19-epidemiology-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Health to phase out daily COVID-19 Epidemiology Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e559f5f6-4681-5e5e-aaa5-8d83aca2bda4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"950\" height=\"689\" alt=\"San Juan Basin Public Health confirmed the first case of the omicron variant in La Plata County on Tuesday. Public health officials think the omicron variant is circulating rapidly throughout Southwest Colorado. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan Basin Public Health confirmed the first case of the omicron variant in La Plata County on Tuesday. Public health officials think the omicron variant is circulating rapidly throughout Southwest Colorado. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Beginning May 11, in conjunction with the end of the national Public Health Emergency, the New Mexico Department of Health will discontinue its daily reporting of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths and tests.<\/p>\n<p>NMDOH will continue to monitor week-by-week trends in COVID-19 infections, COVID-19 related hospitalizations and COVID-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe end of the national Public Health Emergency on May 11, signals a shift to a new phase of COVID-19\u201d said DOH deputy secretary Dr. Laura Parajon. \u201cWe will continue to actively monitor trends related to COVID-19, to report data that can be used to protect ourselves and our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People at highest risk for severe COVID-19 are people over the age of 65 and individuals who are immunocompromised.<\/p>\n<p>The department recommends individuals stay up to date on flu and COVID-19 vaccinations, get tested if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, get treated for severe COVID-19 symptoms if high risk, stay home if sick or if a child in the home is sick, wash hands thoroughly and frequently and keep high-touch surfaces clean and regularly disinfected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 reporting will end May 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82478,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34112\/revisions\/82478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34112"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}