Back in March, Wahela Johns started sending these letters, pleading for help.

Is it possible for you to read one of the notes you sent?

Yeah, let me see. When did I send it?

Wahela is Navajo. She was writing to the president of the Navajo Nation.

This is March 19th.

I said,

Yata President Jonathan Nez,

thank you for all you're doing in response to COVID-19.

I'm writing to encourage you to take one step further and put a shelter in place order for all of the Navajo Nation.

I know thousands of our people are not getting COVID-19 information, especially how life-threatening

this virus is. And I would strongly encourage you in your administration to put shelter in place order.

Did you get a response?

I didn't.

Wahela splits her time between Oakland, California, and Black Mesa, Arizona.

In California, she was completely locked down.

Talking to her relatives back in Arizona, she worried they weren't locked down enough.

A few days before she wrote to the president, dozens of Navajo church leaders had gathered together.

One pastor was coughing.

After the group split up, more people began getting sick.

The information wasn't out there.

I mean, a lot of families don't have Wi-Fi.

They don't have cell service.

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