In Chinle, a Navajo Nation COVID-19 hotspot, volunteers protect elders
When another wave of COVID-19 infections hit the Navajo Nation, Virginia Gorman's 13-year-old and 9-year-old grandsons stepped up. The boys were sent to lend a hand to their grandparents who live on the outskirts of Chinle, a rural community near the center of the Navajo Nation that's been hit hard by COVID-19's second wave. In between taking online classes out of Albuquerque, the two boys helped their grandmother with chores, chopping wood and taking care of their grandpa, who has a prosthetic leg that makes it difficult for him to get around. "I just go to my chicken house, let ...
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