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Geoindigena/Rainforest Foundation When COVID-19 was detected last spring in Panama, 26-year-old cartographer Carlos Doviaza feared for his "brothers" — not his blood relatives but indigenous people like himself. He believed the way he could help them was to do what he does best: making maps. "I thought, why not use my strength to build a platform created by indigenous people for indigenous peoples to show relevant information about the pandemic visually and easily?" Doviaza didnt go down ...

2 hours ago by Sofia Moutinho (NPR) Doviazas maps overlay the daily number of COVID cases reported by the health ministry (depicted as the spike protein of the virus, shown in red) with locations of indigenous communities (dark green). Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. When COVID-19 was detected last spring in Panama, 26-year-old cartographe...