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More Choctaws have died of COVID than those who died of the disease in Hawaii. Or Alaska. Or Wyoming.
More Choctaws have died of COVID than those who died of the disease in Hawaii. Or Alaska. Or Wyoming.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the Mississippi Choctaw Band of Indians harder than any major city in the nation — and 10 times harder than the rest of Mississippi.

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