It was January 2021 in McKinley County, New Mexico, and George Munoz was despondent. Ten months into the coronavirus pandemic, the devastating impact on his community weighed him down.
“We live in a small town, so everybody kind of knows everybody right?” Munoz, a representative elected to the state’s legislature, told Yahoo Finance. “For seven days straight, I knew somebody who had died.”
McKinley County has one of the highest COVID-related mortality rates in the U.S., according to a new…
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