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People of Color and COVID-19: Native Americans II (20 Articles)

People of Color and COVID-19: Native Americans II (20 Articles)

The Native Nonprofit Sector and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Charting a Path Forward (Firstnations.org, June 2020)

https://www.firstnations.org/projects/charting-a-path-forward/

Albuquerque Hospital’s Secret Policy Separated Native American Newborns from Their Mothers (New Mexico in Depth, 6/13/2020)

http://nmindepth.com/2020/06/13/albuquerque-hospitals-secret-policy-separated-native-american-newborns-from-their-mothers/

Navajo Nation: The People Battling America’s Worst Coronavirus Outbreak (BBC News, 6/15/2020)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52941984

The COVID-19 Response in Indian Country (Center for American Progress, 6/18/2020)

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2020/06/18/486480/covid-19-response-indian-country/

A Hospital Was Accused of Racially Profiling Native American Women. Staff Said Administrations Hid the Evidence (New Mexico in Depth, 6/22/2020)

http://nmindepth.com/2020/06/22/a-hospital-was-accused-of-racially-profiling-native-american-women-staff-said-administrators-hid-the-evidence/

Native Americans Account for 13 Percent of Montana COVID-19 Cases (Montana Public Radio, 6/30/2020)

https://www.mtpr.org/post/native-americans-account-13-percent-montana-covid-19-cases

More than One-Third COVID-19 Deaths in Montana Were Native Americans (Montana Public Radio, 7/2/2020)

https://www.mtpr.org/post/more-one-third-covid-19-deaths-montana-were-native-americans

Analysis: Native Americans infected with COVID-19 at higher rates in Arizona (Arizona Public Media NPR, 7/10/2020)

https://news.azpm.org/p/coronavirus/2020/7/10/176298-analysis-native-americans-infected-with-covid-19-at-higher-rates-in-arizona/

Health Disparities Leave Native Americans More Vulnearable to COVID-19 (Wisconsin Public Radio, 7/13/2020)

https://www.wpr.org/health-disparities-leave-native-americans-more-vulnerable-covid-19

Contract Tracing for Native Americans in Rural Arizona (The New England Journal of Medicine, July 16. 2020)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2023540

Coronavirus crisis threatens internet opportunity for Native Americans (Reuters, 7/27/2020)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-rights-trfn/coronavirus-crisis-threatens-internet-opportunity-for-native-americans-idUSKCN24T06B

‘Our Data is Not Counted:’ COVID-19 hitting Native Americans Hard (WMAR Baltimore, 7/30/2020)

https://www.wmar2news.com/news/coronavirus/our-data-is-not-counted-covid-19-hitting-native-americans-hard

Native Americans Feel Devasted by the Virus Yet Overlooked in the Data (NYT, 7/31/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/native-americans-coronavirus-data.html

Food insecurity amid COVID-19 prompts Native Americans to return to their roots (Cronkite News, 8/3/2020)

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/08/03/covid-indian-country-food-insecurity-native-americans/

Native American Family in Oregon Survives COVID-19 Battle (WBUR. 8/6/2020)

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/08/06/native-americans-coronavirus-oregon

Federal Agency to reopen 53 Native American schools despite coronavirus fears (NBC NEWS, 8/10/2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-agency-reopen-53-native-american-schools-despite-coronavirus-fears-n1236253

CDC Confirms Soaring COVID-19 Rate Among Native Americans (Medpage Today, 8/19/2020)

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/88167

Data Shows disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among Native Americans (Indianz.com, 8/20/2020)

https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/08/20/data-shows-disproportionate-impact-of-co.asp

Covid-19 incidence more than triple among Native Americans, new CDC report says (CNN, 8/21/2020)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/health/covid-19-native-americans-cdc-study-wellness/index.html

COVID-19 Among Native American Indian and Alaska Native Persons—23 States, January 31-July 3, 2020 (CDC, 8/28/2020)

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6934e1.htm

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