Virus takes hold of close-knit Navajo Nation communities

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Virus takes hold of close-knit Navajo Nation communities

Isolation helps virus hopscotch from a small church across the reservation

The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, carried in from Tucson, doctors say, by a man who had been to a basketball tournament. From a church in Chilchinbeto, COVID-19 took hold on the Navajo Nation, leaving the reservation with some of the highest infection rates in the U.S.

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