New study describes Native Americans at outsized risk of severe COVID-19, death

Native Americans at outsized risk of severe COVID-19, death ANOXLOU / Flickr cc CIDRAP

An observational study published yesterday in PNAS Nexus reveals that American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) COVID-19 patients were three times more likely to become severely ill than their White or Hispanic peers and had more than double the risk of in-hospital death—despite being younger and having fewer chronic conditions.