By
Janet Kaplan
on
April 16, 2020
Poor health care, lacking infrastructure, and generational poverty combine to make Native Americans especially vulnerable to COVID-19.With previous infectious respiratory illnesses like H1N1, mortality rates were sometimes four to five times higher than US averages among tribal communities. Allison Barlow, director of the Center for American Indian Health, talks to Stephanie Desmon about COVID-19’s particular threats to Native Americans, what’s being done to help mount a “culturally informed” response, and how the virus is “revealing the cracks in our systems.”
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