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. |