Nonprofits help distribute food boxes to Navajo vets
At least 90 Navajo veterans got the sheepherder’s special during a food distribution on Friday in Cornfields, Ganado and Kinlichee.
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Scrub tech keeps fighting virus after losing loved ones
It was April of last year when Francisco stood outside GIMC’s ICU door, clad in full protective clothing, breathing heavily. He took several deep breaths to calm himself before entering the room. “I had to take a deep breath and reassure myself and tell myself, ‘I can do this. I am here to help and to stabilize a patient.’”
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Thoreau elderly get first shots of vaccine
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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Frontline worker gets second vaccine dose
Shaiyaia Fowler, a medical assistant at Sage Memorial Hospital, said she took the trial vaccine, Pfizer BioNTech, to protect her number one priority – her children.
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68 chapters with ‘uncontrolled’ COVID-19 numbers
Residents are ignoring state and Navajo Nation public health orders, causing an “out of control” spread of the virus.
• Nearly 1 in 8 Navajos has become sickened with the coronavirus.
• At least 777 people have died on the Navajo Nation from the illness.
• A shelter-in-place order has been extended to Jan. 10.
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Window Rock Weather
Fair
21.0 F (-6.1 C)
Dewpoint: 12.0 F (-11.1 C)
Humidity: 68%
Wind: calm
Pressure: 30.17
Dewpoint: 12.0 F (-11.1 C)
Humidity: 68%
Wind: calm
Pressure: 30.17
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow