Navajo Nation and Other Native American Reservations Hit Hard by Covid-19
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#2That's why I come here, for "hacker news"
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#3About ten years ago H1N1 hit First Nations people really hard here in Canada. About 1/3 of the hospitalizations were First Nations women.
PDF http://www.nccah-ccnsa.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/At...
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#4The article doesn't really go into why the reservations were worse hit than other US areas. They are "sovereign" "nations" so surely they have some autonomy to set their own lockdown, travel policies, and other responses to the pandemic.
Did they have even worse governance than the US generally? Or dense living conditions? Or particularly vulnerable age profiles? I get that they're not generally wealthy, but probably wealthier than places like Vietnam and Mongolia which contained the spread very well.
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#5PSA:
Vitamin D deficiency is a strong factor, not for getting Covid-19, but for bad outcomes.
It's especially common for people with dark skin, since that blocks the ability of producing Vitamin D from sunlight.
If that's part of what's happening to the Navajo, I don't know, but you should probably eat Vitamin D pills, especially during this indoor lockdown, and if if you have dark skin.
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#6The article doesn't really go into why the reservations were worse hit than other US areas. They are "sovereign" "nations" so surely they have some autonomy to set their own lockdown, travel policies, and other responses to the pandemic. Did they have even worse governance than the US generally? Or dense living conditions? Or particularly vulnerable age profiles? I get that they're not generally wealthy, but probably…
Reservations are prisoner of war camps from the 19th century that persist to this day. It is more illuminating to compare them to other similarly situated people around the world in terms of their social services and freedom to develop self governance
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#7The article doesn't really go into why the reservations were worse hit than other US areas. They are "sovereign" "nations" so surely they have some autonomy to set their own lockdown, travel policies, and other responses to the pandemic. Did they have even worse governance than the US generally? Or dense living conditions? Or particularly vulnerable age profiles? I get that they're not generally wealthy, but probably…
From a news story here in Canada about Navajo - their nation is a "food desert" so people have to keep driving to the cities to buy everything, exposing themselves in the process (can't do Foodora/Uber Eats/Instacart). Lack of PPE seems to be a general problem as well.
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#8The article doesn't really go into why the reservations were worse hit than other US areas. They are "sovereign" "nations" so surely they have some autonomy to set their own lockdown, travel policies, and other responses to the pandemic. Did they have even worse governance than the US generally? Or dense living conditions? Or particularly vulnerable age profiles? I get that they're not generally wealthy, but probably…
Several native nations traded their land for the promise of acceptable healthcare as part of treaties, which has not been held up to standard.[0]
Additionally, native nations in fact have tried to set their own lockdown and travel policies. State governments have threatened them for doing so.[1]
[0]. "For Native Americans, Health Care Is A Long, Hard Road Away" - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/13/4738483...
[1]. "'I’m protecting my people': Tribal citizens defend coronavirus checkpoints amid threat from state" - https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/05/11/im-protecting-my-peo...
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#9PSA: Vitamin D deficiency is a strong factor, not for getting Covid-19, but for bad outcomes. It's especially common for people with dark skin, since that blocks the ability of producing Vitamin D from sunlight. If that's part of what's happening to the Navajo, I don't know, but you should probably eat Vitamin D pills, especially during this indoor lockdown, and if if you have dark skin.
https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/15/bmjnph-20...
"There is no strong scientific evidence to show that very high intakes (ie, mega supplements) of vitamin D will be beneficial in preventing or treating COVID-19."
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#10The article doesn't really go into why the reservations were worse hit than other US areas. They are "sovereign" "nations" so surely they have some autonomy to set their own lockdown, travel policies, and other responses to the pandemic. Did they have even worse governance than the US generally? Or dense living conditions? Or particularly vulnerable age profiles? I get that they're not generally wealthy, but probably…
Reservations are prisoner of war camps from the 19th century that persist to this day. It is more illuminating to compare them to other similarly situated people around the world in terms of their social services and freedom to develop self governance
LOL. Reservations are inverse of war camps. They are not for keeping them in, they are for keeping you out.