The first 3,900 doses of Pfizer vaccine arrived at Gallup Indian Medical Center this week and launched distribution to the first priority group within Navajo Area Indian Health Service units and tribal health organizations, which includes frontline health care workers, first responders, traditional practitioners and patients in long-term care facilities.
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Arvena Peshlakai, the first trial volunteer on Navajo to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot in September, says she and her husband, Melvin Luke Peshlakai, had no hesitation about signing up for study being conducted by Johns Hopkins at the Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility.
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Despite a majority of Diné expressing opposition to a bill (No. 306-20) during the comment period, last Friday the Naabik’iyati Committee swiftly passed the bill (20-3), which extended the expenditure deadline for all programs with encumbered Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funds from Dec.15 to Dec. 22.
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As Navajo Area Indian Health Service health care facilities near capacity, with limited options for transferring patients elsewhere, NAIHS Chief Medical Officer Loretta Christensen said they are planning for the possibility of rationing supplies, equipment and medications.
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If all goes as planned, the Navajo Area Indian Health Service expects to receive its first delivery of the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine next week, NAIHS Chief Medical Officer Loretta Christensen told Navajo Nation leaders Saturday.
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