Vaccine Registration in New Mexico

New Mexico has their vaccination registration system up and running. The criteria appear to be a combination of age and occupation. There’s nothing about cancer or other illnesses, so I won’t be particularly high on their list. That’s ok, I don’t mind waiting. I think people whose jobs are serving the public should get it as soon as possible. I don’t mind staying away from people for another few months; it’s not a hardship for me. The only place I have to go sometimes is the cancer center.

John and I had been assuming that we’d have to travel back to New Mexico to get our vaccination, because we are New Mexico residents. But it turns out that Arizona is willing to vaccinate all their out-of-state snowbirds! Traveling back to New Mexico from out-of-state would have put us into a 14 day quarantine, so it would have been quite a nuisance.

Here’s what the azdhs.gov website FAQ’s has to say about it:

I don’t think Arizona has a registration system set up yet. Here’s what the New Mexico’s registration website looks like:

It’s at https://cvvaccine.nmhealth.org/#

It looks like first we submit a pre-registration, then when it’s our turn we get an event code, and then we can come back to this page with our code to register for the shot.

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