Pandemic Life

Indigenous People

What Life Is Like as a Navajo Nation Health Worker

Roxanna Yazzie works long hours to keep her community safe from Covid-19. She is one of eight women helping run the health clinic in Navajo Mountain, a chapter of the Navajo Nation that straddles the border of Arizona and Utah. Science writer

Wudan Yan

profiles a day in Yazzie’s life for

Elemental

. Read her story below.

A Day in the Life of a Navajo Nation Health Worker

Read more about the lives of health workers and scientists during the pandemic below.

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