Collected Item: “Indigenous populations and COVID assistance”
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Indigenous populations and COVID assistance
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article
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This article is about the government's assistance to help Native Americans and Alaska natives combat COVID-19. The Biden administration announced that they will put $4 billion of assistance. The money will be used for things like testing, treatment, and vaccines for these indigenous populations. This is critically important as the CDC announced that Native American and Alaskan Native populations are up to 3.5x more likely to contract COVID-19 than white people. One of the things that the article also notes is that confidence in getting the vaccine will also be an important factor in diminishing that 3.5x number. Efforts to educate specific populations on the vaccine will help the money, but there is a lot of work still to be done.
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Indigenous populations, Joseph R. Biden, CDC, vaccine, testing, contract tracing
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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949447
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Lindsay Kalter
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2021-04-16