At least 1.2 million Americans have died from COVID-19; thousands of them just since January. As the nation marks five years since the pandemic-causing virus appeared in this country we’ll look at how Native Americans have recovered, and how they haven’t. Businesses closed down or have yet to regain their pre-pandemic levels, school enrollment remains weakened, and trust in medical science—something Native Americans already lacked—is diminished. We’ll examine what we learned from the unprecedented public health emergency five years later.
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