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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
August 12, 2020
IHS updates Covid-19 numbers
SPECIALS
The Indian Health Service
has updated its coronavirus
data, showing results as of
August 9. According to the
data, 35,631 tests have re-
turned positive for Covid-19.
That represents an increase
of 0.78 percent from the
35,355 cases previously re-
ported.
Altogether,
537,762
coronavirus tests have been
administered through August
9, the data shows. That marks
an increase of 0.55 percent
from the day prior.
The low growth rates are
typical of lulls in data seen
during weekends. But since
July 21, there has been a slow-
down in coronavirus activity
within the IHS.
Overall, 6.6 percent of
IHS coronavirus tests have
returned positive, according
to the data. But the rate is
far higher in the Phoenix
Area, where almost 17.1 per-
cent are positive.
Next is the Navajo Area,
which serves the largest res-
ervation in the United States.
But even with about 15.1 per-
cent of tests returning posi-
tive, the rate has fallen steadily
over the last month, follow-
ing a noticeable decline as
the region with the highest
rate.
The Nashville Area, which
covers a wide area of Indian
Country, including the South
and Northeastern parts of
the U.S., also continues to
show a high positive rate of
8.9 percent.
On the other end of the
spectrum, aggressive efforts
in the Alaska Area are turn-
ing up very few cases. Out of
106,659 tests administered in
Alaska, only 0.65 percent
have returned positive, the
data shows.
The Alaska Area also out-
numbers every other area—
including Navajo— in terms
of tests administered. The
Oklahoma City Area has
fallen back to the second
spot.
The data, however, is in-
complete. While 100 percent
of facilities run directly by
the IHS are reporting data,
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only 33 percent of tribally
managed facilities and 44
percent of urban Indian or-
ganizations are doing the
same.
The service population
for 2019 is 2,562,290.
Based on that figure, about
21 percent of American In-
dians and Alaska Natives
have been tested for the
coronavirus since the IHS
began reporting data in
March.
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