Early in the pandemic, little was known to the public about COVID-19, except that it was a respiratory illness, often attacking the lungs and ultimately making it impossible for patients to breathe…

Within the first week of COVID-19 cases reported in New Mexico, shoppers’ voices echoed through grocery stores – the shelves too empty to absorb the casual sounds of shopping carts or the whispering of scared patrons stocking up on goods for the foreseeable future…

Few things have remained as they were in those early days of the pandemic, but less than 50 miles south of the Colorado border, tucked into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Taos Pueblo has remained closed to the public since March 2020…

It’s fairly common knowledge in Albuquerque that in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in the Sundowner Motel, an old motor lodge located along a somewhat deserted strip of Route 66…

It may take years to truly understand the extent of the “silent pandemics” that have run parallel to the more visible effects of COVID-19…

Sometime during the middle of the pandemic, people began noticing a type of collective human pause – a shared break during which life was forced to slow itself down and create a sense of calm amid an otherwise chaotic COVID storm…

As COVID-19 raged in the Spring of 2020, people who had lost jobs returned home to their families living on the Navajo Nation…

Early in the pandemic, the threat that COVID posed to senior and elder populations was strikingly clear. They were quickly identified as the most at-risk population for severe illness and death…

Teachers and coaches entered into the pandemic last year without a blueprint for how to adapt to virtual learning – how to continue engaging students, many of whose adolescent lives thrived on social, emotional and physical connections to one another…

The pounding sounds of Air Care One’s rotors echo across the arid lands of Shiprock, New Mexico, as the helicopter lingers ominously in the sky…

For months at the beginning of COVID, one of the few outside connections people shared with one another, across states and across countries, was a simple nightly ritual of banging pots and pans, clapping hands and yelling out of windows in support of healthcare workers…

In mid-March, 2020, a 46-year-old man from Chilchinbito, Arizona, a small community of just over 500 people, tested positive for COVID-19. This was the first reported case of COVID on the Navajo Nation…

Disillusioned with the apathy and indulgence that crept back into society just a decade after the end of World War II, Albert Camus wrote in 1956…

March in New Mexico can be deceptive in its false Spring optimism. A year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced a near full-shut down of the state, promise began to shine again on the horizon…

At the start of COVID, when the stay-at-home orders were first issued, people retreated to their homes, apartments or the homes of family members to wait out what would be months of sheltering in place – an effort to “flatten the curve…”

In March, 2020, as COVID-19 spread quickly through the United States and the world, personal protective equipment – facemasks, gowns, gloves, face shields – quickly disappeared…

Albuquerque’s International District (ID), a 3.9-square-mile neighborhood tucked into the city’s southeast corridor, is home to New Mexico’s most diverse population…

In 2004, Le had invested his life savings into opening his nail salon. A year later, when the landlord raised his rent, he lost every cent he had invested in the business – including a year’s salary…

“If you had asked me 50 years ago if I’d be moving out here, I would have said, ‘No, I’m not gonna live on the Reservation.’ I would have thought that back then…

The funeral home was stark; empty spots spanned the parking lot and, except for a family of five – the maximum attendees for an in-person service…