Doctors Without Borders Launches COVID-19 Response Team To The Navajo Nation

Jean Stowell, head of the Doctors Without Borders U.S. COVID-19 Response Team, announced that the organization has dispatched a team of nine to the hard-hit Navajo Nation in the southwest U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team consists of two physicians, three nurse/midwives, a water sanitation specialist, two logisticians, and a health promoter who specializes in community health education.

Navajo Nation, home to roughly 170,000 people, now has more coronavirus cases per capita than any state in America. Due to a shortage in nursing and specialized medical staff, the most critical patients . . .