Health

Eleven survivors of the coronavirus recently donated their blood plasma at Tuba City Regional Health Care in hopes it helps patients recover from COVID-19.

The Fort Defiance Indian Hospital Board is receiving some backlash from the community — and its Council delegate — for closing the Nahata Dziil Health Center.

“I never thought it would come here, not here on the reservation.” She first heard about the coronavirus (COVID-19) on TV in January 2020. “It’s all the way across in China!”

In a report to the Health, Education, and Human Services committee two week ago, University of New Mexico researchers said that while measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 on Navajo have been effective, the Nation has not yet reached its peak, and it would be helpful to have finer scale data to work with.