For Branch, a Harvard-trained lawyer and former attorney general of the Navajo Nation, her son’s encounter with RSV was eye-opening. As a result, American Indian and Alaska Native infants bear the tragic distinction of experiencing the highest rates of RSV-related hospitalization in the country. American Indian and Alaska Native children have some of the highest rates of RSV transmission, hospitalization and mortality in the country. And there haven’t been culturally relevant public health campaigns about RSV on Native lands, according to public health experts. But given the risks and high prevalence of RSV among Navajo children, she says, the vast majority are choosing to immunize their children.