Media Clips by NUNA 12/11/20

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine passed a critical milestone yesterday when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccine Advisory Panel – which is composed of independent scientific experts, infectious disease doctors, and statisticians – voted 17 to 4 in favor of...

Media Clips by NUNA 12/10/20

Just one week after the United States broke a daily record for deaths caused by COVID-19, officials across the country reported a new record of 3,011 new fatalities yesterday. Meanwhile, NPR has created a tool using recently released hospital-level data to allow...

Media Clips by NUNA 12/09/20

As the first wave of mass vaccination rollout takes place across the United Kingdom, health officials are warning that people with a “significant history of allergic reactions” should not be given the COVID-19 vaccine created by Pfizer/BioNTech. The warning comes...

Media Clips by NUNA 12/08/20

Good morning, NUNAverse: The stay-at-home lockdown has been extended by Navajo Nation officials as the COVID-19 cases continue to grow. The Navajo Department of Health reported 213 new COVID-19 positive cases with ICU beds at full capacity. The total number of...

Media Clips by NUNA 12/07/20

The New York Times reports on the impact that the Native Vote had in flipping Arizona in the 2020 General Election, and covers the impact that the 100,000 voting-age Native people in Georgia could have in the Senate runoff election early next month. The deadline to...

Media Clips by NUNA 12/04/20

When Todd Gloria (Tlingit) was elected as mayor of San Diego on November 3, he became the first openly gay person and the first person of color to be elected to the position, as well as the first Native and Filipino-American mayor elected in a U.S. City of over a...