Health

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.

Navajo Area IHS has almost doubled inpatient capacity from what it was prior to COVID-19 and have added three alternate care sites, in Gallup, Chinle and Shiprock

Mary Tom could hear her four-year-old son crying and pleading to see her. He was just outside her bedroom door.

From his home in the San Francisco Bay area, Diné molecular biology professor Wilfred Denetclaw has followed the statistics on the spread of the coronavirus on the Navajo Nation with increasing alarm.

The way to tell a story in the Diné language is to paint it in one’s imagination as if you are actually there experiencing it, says Raymond Don Yellowman, president of Bodaway-Gap Chapter and founder of The Forgotten People.