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mfcorey1

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Wed May 6, 2020, 04:02 PM May 2020

Native American health center asked for COVID-19 supplies. It got body bags instead.

"Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?" a Seattle Indian Health Board official asked.

Lucero said the body bags were a mistaken — yet nonetheless macabre — delivery from a distributor via King County's Public Health Department.

Abigail Echo-Hawk, the health board's chief research officer, said she believes that the message it sends, even unintentionally, is resonating in Native American communities across the United States during the pandemic: There is a pressing lack of adequate resources and funding as promised.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-health-center-asked-covid-19-supplies-they-got-n1200246

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Native American health center asked for COVID-19 supplies. It got body bags instead. (Original Post) mfcorey1 May 2020 OP
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