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Welcome to the science podcast for October 16, 2020.

I'm Megan Cantwell.

Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals.

First up, I speak with Abigail Echo Hawk, a scientist fighting

for Native Americans to be counted in COVID-19 data. Next, we have researcher Danielle

Mudashiget. She speaks with Sarah Crespi about fuel use by the human heart and how it compares

with the leg.

The coronavirus pandemic underscores an issue Abigail Echo Hawk, the chief research officer of the Seattle Indian Health Board, has been fighting her entire career, the exclusion of native people in public health data.

We know that the data that is being collected across the United States isn't collecting race and ethnicity correctly.

However, even with that incredible lack of data, the data that we do have shows an incredible

disparity.

Growing up in rural Alaska, Echo Hawk was surrounded by examples of how a native community diligently cared for one another.

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