Dispatches from Navajo Nation and Its Battle with COVID-19

Governing: Alicia Chee is bouncing along a 10-mile dirt road, trailing a plume of red dust behind her borrowed black pickup. The 36-year-old Navajo legislative assistant left her home on the reservation before six this morning to shop for groceries and deliver them to a remote family stricken with coronavirus, something she does weekly. It’s not a part of her official government duties, and she makes the three-hour round trip on her own time and with her own money.

Spanning portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, the 27,000-square-mile Navajo Nation is home to 180,000 people served by just 13 grocery stores and four hospitals.

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