Inside Navajo Nation?s Battle Against Coronavirus
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Navajo Nation
the Navajo Health Department
Indian Health Services
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Jonathan Nez
Shanna Yazzie
Michelle Tom
Kristin Murphy
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American
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Oljato-Monument Valley
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the Monument Valley Health Center
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Arizona
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Yazzie
Phoenix
San Juan County
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Summary
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has enacted a series of measures to keep the population at home, including a 57-hour-long curfew every weekend, which is being strictly enforced by the police. Even when she goes to the outhouse, I’m watching like a hawk.” Despite the vast distances between homes, many people on the reservation aren’t used to isolation. Households often have as many as eight or 10 people living together, and like in Yazzie’s family, many homes include elders. “Every single appropriation has underfunded Indian Health Services,” said Nez. But, he says, the crisis on Navajo Nation highlights more than just the deficiencies of healthcare in Native American communities: “I think this pandemic is highlighting the inadequate healthcare system throughout this country,” he said.
As said here by Agnes Walton,Leah Varjacques