COVID-19 in Arizona: Case numbers break daily record set four days earlier

Doctors recommend that anyone experiencing COVID-19 symptoms go to a drive-thru testing station, such as this one in New York in March, rather than to a hospital. (Photo by The National Gaurd/Flickr Creative Commons) Cronkite News By Bree Florence/Cronkite News | June 16, 2020 PHOENIX – Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Arizona rose by nearly 2,400…

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Navajo face loss of elders and traditions to COVID-19

Emerson Gorman (L), who is a Navajo elder, poses at his property with his grandchild Nizhoni, wife Beverly and daughter Naiyahnikai near the Navajo Nation town of Steamboat in Arizona (AFP Photo/Mark RALSTON) Yahoo News By Issam Ahmed | June 4, 2020 Steamboat (United States) (AFP) – Emerson Gorman knows what it’s like to face…

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The Top U.S. Coronavirus Hot Spots Are All Indian Lands

The Navajo Nation, Chinle, Ariz.Credit…Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times NY Times By Nicholas Kristof | May 30, 2020 CHINLE, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation is a vast, awe-inspiring land of desert crags and canyons, the largest reservation in the country, but today it reverberates with grief and fear. The Navajo have had more…

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