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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Apr 17, 2020, 09:28 PM Apr 2020

Arizona National Guard aids Navajos, others caught in COVID-19 'perfect storm'

Col. Tom Leeper ticks off factors that in three weeks have turned the Navajo Nation into Arizona's COVID-19 hot spot.

His words come rapid-fire quick, with all the dry certainty of a clinical assessment, which for the Arizona National Guard's state surgeon, is what it is. Objective information needed for triage.

Medically: Small hospitals, overwhelmed staff, remote locations, lack of equipment, limited personal protection, few resources.

Socially: Remoteness, multigenerational housing with old and young living in close quarters, no running water, communal wells, high rates of diabetes and high blood pressure.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arizona-national-guard-aids-navajos-others-caught-in-covid-19-perfect-storm/ar-BB12MVCt

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