Obamacare deemed the nation’s 12 Tribal Epidemiology Centers authorities on par with state & federal health agencies. But the CDC isn’t recognizing that authority, and during a recent call one official tried to explain to TEC staff what “epidemiology” is
Federal and state health agencies are refusing to give Native American tribes and organizations representing them access to data showing how the coronavirus is spreading around their lands, potentially widening health disparities and frustrating tribal leaders already ill-equipped to contain the pandemic.
The tribal epidemiology centers were originally created to coordinate public health efforts between tribes and state and federal agencies. And under the Affordable Care Act, the centers are considered “We struggle every single day to get the states, the counties and agencies like the CDC to actually comply with that,” Echo-Hawk said. “But they don’t recognize us.”
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