WATCH: Coping with Social Distancing in New Mexico; Tracking COVID-19 in Indian Country

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Visitors walk over dunes in White Sands National Park at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., Thursday, March 5, 2020.

Visitors walk over dunes in White Sands National Park at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., Thursday, March 5, 2020. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

March 20, 2020

This story is part of a collaboration with New Mexico PBS through FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Psychiatrists from University of New Mexico share strategies for dealing with the realities of social distancing as the nation responds to the COVID-19 outbreak. Members of the New Mexico Native American Census Coalition also discuss the challenge of avoiding an undercount in Indian Country, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Line opinion panel take a broad look at New Mexico’s response to COVID-19.

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