Doctors Without Borders dispatches team to the Navajo Nation.

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13. Lujan-Grisham here in NM has been very involved

and closed the city of Gallup to slow the spread in McKinley County. By closed, I mean all routes into the city have been roadblocked, and only workers have been allowed in.

The most seriously ill patients are flown here to University Hospital. Yes, NM is doing what it can. The IHS just needs help dealing with the less serious cases staying on the rez and/or on ranches and towns outside it.

Most of the reservation is within AZ. Very little extends into CO or UT, mostly a "no man's land" border between the Navajo and Ute, who never liked each other much.

The IHS clinics do a good job on routine things, inpatient and outpatient. This is not routine, and I hope the additional help does some good.

Closing Gallup has already helped a bit, cases are now listed as "stable," rather than increasing.