A Navajo Nation police officer smooths dirt over the grave of a person who died of covid-19 in Tuba City, Arizona Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The life expectancy of American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) people is thought to have fallen by nearly five years between 2019 and 2021, the biggest decline of any ethnic group in the US during the covid-19 pandemic.
In 2021, at Virginia Commonwealth University and his colleagues calculated that the overall life expectancy of people in the US
