@misc{Sarkar_J-2021_143153,
title = {Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation},
author = {Sarkar, J. and Meyer, C.},
month = {feb},
year = {2021},
abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic is wiping out Indigenous elders and with them thecultural identityof Indigenous communities in the United States. But on lands that sprawl across a vast area of the American West, the Navajo (or Diné) are dealing not just with the pandemic, but also with another, related public health crisis. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19 is killing Native Americans at nearlythree timesthe rate of whites, and on the Navajo Nation itself, about 30,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus and roughly 1,000 have died. But among the Diné, the coronavirus is also spreading through a population that decades of unsafe uranium mining and contaminated groundwater has left sick and vulnerable.},
journal = {Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists},
publisher = {Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists},
url = {https://thebulletin.org/2021/02/radiation-illnesses-and-covid-19-in-the-navajo-nation/},
}
