Health

“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.

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.