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New Mexico is Rolling out Pfizer Booster Shots. 365,000 eligible in October

KSFR | By Mary Lou Cooper
Published September 29, 2021 at 3:06 PM MDT
PHIL via CDC

COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer are now rolling out in New Mexico. 

Some 365,000 people are eligible for the first round in October for those are at least six months out from their two-shot vaccine course and are in high-risk categories. 

This announcement comes amid rising concerns pointing to a need for COVID-19 boosters when data started to show vaccine effectiveness declined after 6-8 months. 

KSFR's Mary Lou Cooper spoke with the New Mexico Department of Health to get the details.  

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Mary Lou Cooper
Mary Lou Cooper reports on consumer issues for KSFR as well as on politics and elder affairs. She has worked for the U.S. Congress as well as for the Nevada and Tennessee legislatures, and remains a political junkie. She worked many years for an association of Western state legislatures and was a contributor to “Capitol Ideas,” a national magazine about state government. In 2016 Cooper received a public service award from the New Mexico Broadcasting Association for her KSFR story on Internet romance scams. She has received journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and from the National Federation of Press Women. She grew up in Oak Ridge, TN and received her BA from Emory University in Atlanta and her MA from the University of Texas Austin. She also holds fiction and screenwriting certificates from the University of Washington.
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