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A boy holds a kitten named "Popcorn Ball" in front of his home in Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah, on the Navajo reservation April 27. The reservation has some of the highest rates of coronavirus in the country. If Navajos are susceptible to the virus' spread in part because they are so closely knit, that's also how many believe they will beat it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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'The grief is so unbearable': Virus takes toll on Navajo
If Navajos are susceptible to the virus' spread in part because they are so closely knit, that's also how many believe they will beat it

The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, when late winter winds were still blowing off the mesas and temperatures at dawn were often barely above freezing.

By Felicia Fonseca and Tim Sullivan, Associated Press May 26, 2020