Rights & Responsibilities on the Res with Rebecca Nagle

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Native American tribes were among the hardest hit by COVID-19, losing tribal elders to the virus—and with them irretrievable pieces of their culture and heritage. But no group in America has done more to assure their communities are vaccinated and protected. We speak to Rebecca Nagle, activist, journalist and host of Crooked Media’s This Land podcast about how Native American tribes took on the collective responsibility of vaccinating their communities and what our country can learn from them. Take Crooked's listener survey: crooked.com/survey For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0	New Delta cases finally start to trend downward, but deaths are up 28% over the last two weeks.
0:13.7	The Biden administration imposes new employer vaccine mandates through OSHA to tackle the
0:17.8	pandemic.
0:18.8	And it's flu season again, and scientists worry that flu could make a comeback as society
0:22.9	makes its own.
0:24.6	This is American Dissecting.
0:25.6	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.
0:32.4	I don't have to tell you this, but we're in the midst of yet another major COVID-19
0:36.7	wave.
0:37.7	Hospitals and states all over the country are filling up.
0:40.1	In Idaho, they had to announce this.
0:41.9	We begin with breaking news.
0:43.5	The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare activated crisis standards of care, hospital
0:47.8	beds, medicine, and equipment like ventilators, maybe given to those considered most likely
0:52.5	to survive.
0:54.0	Not the most critical with the goal of saving as many lives as possible.
0:58.7	Crisis standards of care is a euphemism for rationing everything from hospitals to clinicians
1:02.8	to medications.
1:03.8	It's no coincidence that Idaho has a 45% vaccination rate.
1:08.3	As we continue to contend with the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccine resistance that's
1:11.8	perpetuating it, we're hearing an awful lot about trust.
1:14.8	No, I wouldn't take it.
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