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IHS responded with a “critical care response team,” but the team- comprised of only one physician, two critical care nurses, and a single respiratory therapist-could not keep pace with the medical need: by January 2021, eighty-one Choctaw members were gone. In desperation, the chairman of the Choctaw Tribe appealed to the federal government for additional assistance. The virus had claimed at least four staff members, while beds, ventilators, and protective equipment eluded the health care providers left behind. Two months later and one thousand miles away in central Mississippi, the Choctaw Health Center was reeling.

Tsosie succumbed to the virus with no one by her side. Reliant on a ventilator in this unfamiliar facility, Ms. Tsosie to another facility more than two hours away because they could not address severe COVID-19 cases. The Gallup IHS hospital, however, transferred Ms. When these remedies failed to supply relief, Ms.

Strapped for resources, health care providers prescribed an inhaler, oxygen, and orders to rest at home.

In April 2020, Matalynn Lee Tsosie, a forty-year-old school secretary and member of the Navajo Nation, visited the local Indian Health Service (“IHS”) Hospital in Gallup, New Mexico complaining of labored breathing. Another life claimed by the novel coronavirus.

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Excerpted From: Brayden Jack Parker, 'Cornerstone upon Which Rest All Others': Utilizing Canons of Statutory Interpretation to Confirm an Enforceable Trust Duty for Native American Health Care, 90 George Washington Law Review 237 (February 2022) (203 Footnotes) ( Full Document)

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