Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans

One in every 475 Native Americans has died since the pandemic began: ‘Families have been decimated’

Covid is killing Native Americans at a faster rate than any other community in the United States, shocking new figures reveal.

American Indians and Alaskan Natives are dying at almost twice the rate of white Americans, according to analysis by APM Research Lab shared exclusively with the Guardian.

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