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Dr. Lawanda Jim, Chair of Internal Medicine, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Northern Navajo Medical Center on Tuesday in Shiprock, N.M. Micah Garen/Getty Images
Health officials are administering the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine in Indigenous communities across the U.S., one of the populations most vulnerable in the pandemic.
About 68,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses will initially be distributed among the population, the Indian Health Service said last week. Doses began to arrive this week and will first be given to the elderly and health care workers. We are so happy I can t even describe it, said Dr. Dakotah Lane, medical director of the Public Health Department and a Lummi Nation member, according to the Associated Press.
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San Antonio-based Army North dispatches medical personnel to New Mexico
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U.S. Army North said Wednesday it was deploying military medical personnel to battle the coronavirus pandemic in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.
It sent elements of Task Force 51, a deployable command post, to Farmington on Friday. Only days earlier, the command ordered military medical specialists to four hospitals in Wisconsin. Some in those task forces came from San Antonio.
Army North, the Joint Force Land Component Command of U.S Northern Command, will oversee a military operation that will bring 25 Navy personnel who are part of four Rapid Rural Response teams.
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Navy Medical Personnel Deploy to Navajo Nation to Assist with COVID-19 Cases
Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer met with Maj. Gen. John F. King, commander of Contingency Command Post 1 and Task Force 51 for U.S. Army North and the Joint Force Land Component Command, to discuss the deployment of the military medical personnel in Window Rock, Ariz., on Dec. 14, 2020. (Courtesy photo by Navajo Nation)
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The military has sent medical personnel to the vast Navajo Nation Reservation, which has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. We consider this obligation sacred and will work tirelessly to alleviate the burden of the coronavirus on the Navajo Nation, Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Army North, said in a statement Wednesday.