Global Fourth World COVID-19 Pandemic Risk Assessment
Coronavirus (COVID-19) In Indian Country Mexico
The Center for World Indigenous Studies is coordinating, planning and organizing support for tribal and urban Indian communities that now face the wave of coronavirus infections across the United States. CWIS is taking action to prevent and reduce the dangerous effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indian Country. CWIS is working with a task force of experts to gather information (research), develop policy analysis and provide recommendations for a program of action congruent with the specific needs of diverse communities.
COVID-19 Pandemic Risk to Mexico’s native peoples
As of 18 October 2020, Mexico’s health agencies had documented just over 86,100 fatalities directly tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mexico therefore has the world’s fourth highest number of deaths, below India (114,031), Brazil (153,675), and the United States (219,286). In terms of the number of deaths per million population, Mexico is virtually the same as the United States, at 1,502 and 1,505, respectively.
The CWIS Global Fourth World COVID-19 Risk Assessment is an extension of the initial assessment in the United States tribal communities expanded into the world at large, where there are 5,000 indigenous nations with a combined population of 1.9 billion people in 206 internationally recognized countries. The COVID-19 Risk Assessment Team is taking on an ambitious and complex study. We are conducting research in states with different policies toward indigenous people 1 , different political systems and government structures, and in particular varying health systems, capacities and competence as relates to public health and in particular conducting a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Populations may vary from just a few families to many thousands of people.
Map updated to Oct 27, 2020
Downloadable Resources
- 269-9 27 Oct 20 COVID-19 Indian Cntry Risk Assessment México [F]
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CWIS Actions
- Action Item 1: Documentation and Reports of Best Practices, tracking infections and deaths, and the application of traditional medicine and healing for prevention and mitigation of the virus to prevent, manage, and treat COVID-19 infections in tribal communities and urban Indian communities.
- Action Item 2: Develop Public Health and traditional medicine guidance, reports and recommendations to sustain individual, family, community, emotional and biological resilience, mental health and strong immune function supported by nutritional factors. Public Health Practices identify assess and specify by community if possible vulnerabilities.
- Action Item 3: Reach out directly to tribal individuals and communities through communications, content narratives, scripts, and distribution produced in part by the CWIS team and with partners including the FNX Indian Television Network, and Native Public Media reaching the vast majority of the 574 tribal communities and 42 urban Indian communities.
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