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.

And did I send it?

Wahela is Navajo.

She was writing to the President of the Navajo Nation.

This is March 19th.

I said, Yat, 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 and 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.

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