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Myles J Stone1, Ryan M Close1, Christopher K Jentoft1
1Myles J. Stone and Kristen H. Parker are with the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Rockville, MD. Ryan M. Close, Christopher K. Jentoft, Katherine Pocock, April Twarkins, and James B. McAuley are with the Whiteriver Indian Hospital, Whiteriver, AZ. Gwendena Lee-Gatewood and J. T. Nashio are with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, Whiteriver, AZ. Brooke I. Grow is with the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, Whiteriver, AZ.
Abstract:
Indigenous populations have been disproportionally affected by COVID-19, particularly those in rural and remote locations. Their unique environments and risk factors demand an equally unique public health response. Our rural Native American community experienced one of the highest prevalence outbreaks in the world, and we developed an aggressive management strategy that appears to have had a considerable effect on mortality reduction. The results have implications far beyond pandemic response, and have reframed how our community addresses several complicated health challenges. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(11):1939-1941. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306472).
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