'[Navajo people] don't often get the chance to tell their stories, so I never try to get off the phone with my sources. These are our people, and my own sources, that are dying.' Journalist Krista Allen on covering the coronavirus crisis:
Every morning, just before dawn, journalist Krista Allen steps outside to pray for her sources."Watch over them," she says from the front yard of her western Navajo Nation house."Please give them the comfort, strength, and ability to get through this."
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