Earlier this year, the Navajo Nation Reservation was a major coronavirus hot spot. Now, it's seen a day without a single positive case. The Navajo Nation's president has some advice: 'Listen to your public health professionals.'
that the Navajo Nation has given 99,000 residents COVID-19 tests — that's more than 50% of its total population. There have been about 10,000 positive cases.Do you know what made the Navajo Nation so vulnerable to COVID-19?
This monster that we call COVID-19 took advantage of our strengths. And one of our strengths here on the Navajo Nation is that we like to be in multigenerational homes. We like to be with our elders, our grandparents, our parents, our aunts and uncles. And when the virus came here onto the Navajo Nation, it took off like wildfire and many families were infected within the same household.
Early on we didn't have contact tracers, we didn't know much about this virus. But now, with people investigating ... and isolating and quarantining individuals in their communities has helped to lessen the spread here on the Navajo Nation.We mandated our citizens to wear masks early on, in mid-April. Now, we are still mandating that. And we also incorporated roadblocks. ...
Lauren Hodges and Patrick Jarenwattananon edited and produced this story for broadcast. Heidi Glenn adapted it for the Web.
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