The full impact of Covid-19 on Indigenous communities in the U.S. is unclear because of racial misclassification and the exclusion of Indigenous communities from data sets and analyses used to make health policy decisions.
COVID-19 data on Native Americans is ‘a national disgrace.’ This scientist is fighting to be counted
![Painted image of Abigail Echo-Hawk, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pulses.jpg?fit=1050%2C591&ssl=1)