It’s been a year since the first case of COVID-19 arrived in the United States. The first weeks were marked with uncertainty and fear as public health experts and policy makers could only guess what the full effect would be. Now we know Native nations have been disproportionately affected, both by the human toll and economic losses. The Indian Health Service alone reports nearly 180,000 positive coronavirus tests and that’s likely a fraction of the total number of Native COVID-10 cases. We’ll hear about what lessons have been learned in the past year and get updates from communities continuing to cope with the ongoing pandemic.
Guests:
Dore Bietz (Northern and Southern Me-Wuk) – Chief Membership Services Officer for iTEMA and coordinator of the Office of Emergency Services for Tuolumne County
Jake Heflin (Osage/Cherokee) – president and CEO of iTEMA
Virginia Hedrick (Yurok) – executive director for California Consortium for Urban Indian Health Inc.
Break 1 music: The Water Will Cleanse Me (song) Russell Wallace (artist) Russell Wallace (album)
Break 2 music: Igluvut (song) Quantum Tangle (artist) Shelter as We Go . . .(album)
