It seems increasingly likely that a safe and effective novel coronavirus vaccine is coming, even if snags in ongoing trials continue to raise questions about when that might be. But that vaccine may be available last to some of the people who need it most: the roughly one million Native Americans who live in the country’s approximately 500 tribal communities.
Native Americans are more than three times more likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, than white Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And in part because they’re more likely to suffer underlying health conditions, they’re also more likely to die of COVID-19 than non-natives.
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