Retired Navajo Transit driver Benjamin Henio, 70, who also worked for Kerr-McGee, the former uranium mining company, “for many years,” said he wouldn’t have a chance against COVID-19 if he were to get it. There was no second-guessing about whether he should get the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
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In a bit of good news to ring in 2021, the nonprofit Santa Fe Recovery Center has partnered with McKinley County, Gallup, the state of New Mexico and local health care providers to open a much-needed substance abuse treatment center called the Four Corners Detox Recovery Center.
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At a time when the gross disparities in health care services and infrastructure have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Navajo Nation’s gaming operations have been grounded, could it be time to consider transforming the casinos into health care facilities?
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The first coronavirus vaccination in Tónaneesdizí took place last Wednesday.
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Arvena Peshlakai, the first trial volunteer on Navajo to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot in September, says she and her husband, Melvin Luke Peshlakai, had no hesitation about signing up for study being conducted by Johns Hopkins at the Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility.
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