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Navy sends medical staff to help Navajo Nation fight COVID-19

Supporting care efforts in Arizona & New Mexico
The Department of Defense Response to COVID-19 in Navajo Nation
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U.S. Navy Lt. Kathryn Hrezo, a critical care nurse with the Rural Rapid Response Team, prepares to checks patients’ blood sugar levels, while working in the COVID-19 ward at the Northern Navajo Medical Center, Shiprock, N.M., Jan. 2, 2021. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing flexible U.S. Department of Defense support to the whole-of-America COVID-19 response. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ashunteia Smith)
The Department of Defense Response to COVID-19 in Navajo Nation
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Navy medical staff are helping the Navajo Nation reservation in New Mexico and Arizona treat COVID-19 patients right now.

About a dozen nurses and other staff were deployed at the request of the Department of Human Services.

They've been working at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in New Mexico alongside civilian and U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps healthcare workers.

Navy medical workers are able to treat up to eight patients at one time in the COVID-19 positive ward.

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