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A woman in sunglasses smiles in front of a desert landscape — Sarah Shewbrooks, director of the data-coordinating unit of the Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center and its lead epidemiologist, says she and her team manually recorded positive covid cases and deaths in the 311 counties of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa the region the epidemiology center serves in the pandemics early days. (Sarah Shewbrooks)

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UPDATED: August 10, 2024 at 5:07 a.m.

Public health workers for Native American communities say state and federal agencies restrict their access to the latest numbers.

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