Navajo Nation Sees High Rate Of COVID-19 And Contact Tracing Is A Challenge

After New York and New Jersey, the place with the highest coronavirus infection rate in the U.S. is the Navajo Nation. Dr. Deborah Birx of the national task force told the White House press corps the tribe is using strike teams to address the issue.

"They're really doing amazing work at their public health institutions with their governors and their mayors," Birx says. "They are in full contact tracing."

But contact tracing — or tracking all the people that COVID-positive patients may have infected — has been a challenge on the Navajo Nation.