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| Navajo Nation Has A Higher Coronavirus Testing Rate Than Most States |
| 2020-04-19 |
| I get the New York density problem, since on a normal day it's (or it was) impossible to cross Fifth Avenue without literally bumping shoulders with people from every country on earth. But here we've got about 200,000 Navajos living on about 27,000 square miles of reservation. It's one of America's least dense populations. Seriously tough SOB's, too. [SLTRIB] Since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed on the Navajo Nation in mid-March, the near-daily updates released by the tribal government have been alarming. The Navajo Epidemiology Center announced 1,127 confirmed cases of the disease and 44 deaths as of Saturday, and Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has warned the peak may still be weeks away — a startling trend for a Native American nation that has an on-reservation population of about 174,000. If the Navajo Nation were a U.S. state, it would rank behind only New York and New Jersey for per-capita confirmed cases. |
| Posted by:Matt |
| #17 I ask, because over that hill is a place someone from (upper?) New York bought and turned into a hunting lodge for him and his buddies. Some beautiful land in AZ, heard UT as well. And yeah, like I said, plenty of salt. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-19 19:35 |
| #16 small time. My point is that NYers aren't flocking there |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-19 19:09 |
| #15 Navajo ones are in AZ and UT |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 18:44 |
| #14 I think all reservations have ca$inos now. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 18:35 |
| #13 #11 - Navajo Nation doesn't cover Vegas or other areas of gaming. Not a chance |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-19 18:05 |
| #12 Unrelated reporting but... Madison, WI had a caravan of about 100 cars circling the capital square in protest of the Air Force decision to base the F35s here. FB link found here. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-19 17:16 |
| #11 Grab your salt and BS filters. This guy, not part of the camp circle, hardly know him, but he may know. He said, New Yorkers broke quarantine and went to that area where they enjoyed games of chance, which is how Wuhan Flu made it into the Nation. Is that area a popular winter home locale? I don't know if guy thinks this, heard this, knows this, or just wants it to be true. There is precedence of New Yorkers breaking quarantine and traveling to other locations, famously to Florida. And the Nation, is it well maintained or does it suffer the problems most other reservations do, except with more people? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-19 17:10 |
| #10 "Let the camel get its nose in the tent. Then double tap..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 13:50 |
| #9 Ref #7: But treating different people differently is a diversity nightmare. Nails it! The 'smoke in the teepee.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-19 13:26 |
| #8 Diversity Makes Us |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-19 13:05 |
| #7 But treating different people differently is a diversity nightmare. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 13:03 |
| #6 It would be extremely helpful if our fearless data-pickers would collect detailed demographic data the way advertising and marketing data companies do. Specifically, disaggregate the COVID stats not only by age but also by: 1. Ethnicity 2. Religion / religious practices 3. Household size and structure incl. # of generations under one roof Pretty sure the above would explain more than half the variance in outcomes. If so, then a policy of targeted, specific, localized measures for households meeting these extremely high-risk criteria would make much more sense than a draconian mass lockdown. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-19 13:00 |
| #5 And some firewater to boot. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-19 12:28 |
| #4 Went to a marvelous medical presentation by Hindu docs about how straying from the traditional diet was problematic for people from the subcontinent. Both the presentation and the buffet were outstanding. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 12:16 |
| #3 Navajo have been 'plagued' by obesity and diabetes for generations. When long genetic lines of sucking every nutrient out of limited food supplies in the desert meets modern plentiful food distribution something has got to give, usually the waistline. Between the one major metro area and the reservations you can isolate the major impact areas in the state. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-19 12:09 |
| #2 Perhaps it's more "anecdotal evidence" that certain peoples are susceptible to this scourage. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-19 10:47 |
| #1 Visit the rez. See the sanitation level. Be uncomfortable about it if you must. Some people have done this to themselves. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-19 10:37 |