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Wash your hands.

Save cleaning and avoid contact with those who are sick.

If you need medical attention, please contact your local medical facility before arriving.

Again, this is the Navajo Police Department.

To help contain the spread of the COVID-19, please stay at home, shelter, place.

This type of message has become a regular part of patrol for the Navajo Police Department.

That's because the Navajo Nation is seeing a higher rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases than most states.

And in Native American communities across the country, there are reports of shortages of necessary medical supplies and critical care beds for patients.

What's more, tribes say that their requests for federal help are being ignored.

It's hard to open a daily email and see that cases on the Navajo Nation jump by, you know, 2030

overnight.

That's New Mexico PBS reporter Antonia Gonzalez.

Antonia has been covering the coronavirus outbreak in Native American communities

and as a member of the Navajo Nation herself.

Frontline's partnering with her

is part of our local journalism initiative.

I'm Rainey Aronson, executive producer Frontline,

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