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By Ray Levy-Uyeda The scene is familiar: A hospital bed, a respirator, medical personnel in full PPE. But while the attending doctor is from San Francisco, California, the hospital is located 1,000 miles away, in the middle of 27,000 miles of vast, desert land. The Navajo Nation, which spans Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, is self-governed but receives economic support from the U.S. government. However, with federal spending on health services historically low for Native, compared with non-Native populations throughout the country, the Navajo Nation has been underfunded and understaffed for years. And despite being early to impose regional curfews and having the country’s highest per capita testing rate, for most of 2020 the Nation suffered from one of the highest infection rates of COVID-19 known locally as Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 or Big Cough-19. Home to 156,000 people, the region has already seen nearly 26,754 positive cases of COVID-19 and 1,170 deaths, a result of multiple form

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