Navajo Nation receives 1st shipment of COVID-19 vaccine Shondiin Silversmith, Arizona Republic
As the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the U.S. this week, the Navajo Nation received its first doses Monday and plans to administer them to health care workers starting Tuesday.
The pandemic has at times overwhelmed the Navajo Nation, which earlier this year had the highest infection rate per capita. The daily number of COVID-19 positive cases has risen sharply during the latest wave of the virus, according to data from the Navajo Nation Department of Health.
On Monday, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer visited the Gallup Indian Medical Center as the Navajo Area IHS received the first shipment of the vaccines.
Arizona s 11 presidential electors on Monday cast their votes for Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, sealing their historic 10,457-vote victory in a state that for decades had given its votes to Republicans.
The ceremony typically is not noteworthy, instead just a formality in the Electoral College process. But this year’s proceedings took on particular significance as President Donald Trump refuses to accept his defeat at the ballot box last month.
Security concerns led electors to convene at an undisclosed location – ultimately revealed as the Phoenix Convention Center – instead of the state Capitol, the usual gathering place. Meanwhile, many Republican legislators are not moving on after the election.
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Three Arizona tribal leaders on diverse slate of 11 electoral voters Tohono O odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. during congressional testimony in February. Norris is one of three tribal leaders, with Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Gila River Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis, on the slate of 11 diverse electors who will cast the state s Electoral College votes Monday for President-elect Joe Biden. (Source: Cronkite News) By Calah Schlabach | December 14, 2020 at 7:52 AM MST - Updated December 14 at 7:54 AM
WASHINGTON â In what a former Arizona elector called âa sweet irony,â the slate of 11 Democratic presidential electors who will cast Arizonaâs Electoral College votes Monday, Dec. 14, includes three tribal leaders.