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By Elise Kaplan / Journal Staff Writer, May 7, 2020.
Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, has a long and storied history of sending teams of medical professionals to far-flung areas of the world struck by epidemics, natural disasters, violence and other calamities.
Now, the international medical humanitarian organization has come to New Mexico tribal communities as part of an operation to address the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Tribal communities across the state have been hard hit by the illness caused by the new coronavirus, and the New Mexico Department of Health reports about 56% of COVID-19 cases are Native American. Native Americans make up about 11% of the state’s total population.
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