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Before getting vaccinated against COVID-19 was an option, Francys Crevier was afraid to leave her Maryland home.
She ordered all of her groceries and limited her time outside, knowing that each venture would put both herself and her immunocompromised mother, with whom Crevier shares her home, at risk. Knowing she could provide for Mom was “a blessing, for sure,” Crevier says. After all, American Indians and Alaska Natives were hospitalized and died from COVID-19 at a higher rate than any other racial group in America throughout the pandemic, says Crevier, who’s Algonquin.
“As a Native woman, I didn’t know if I was going to make it through this,” she says.