Why Canada’s Indigenous Have Vaccine Worries Randi Druzin
TORONTO When the Cree Nation of Mistissini, a small town in the province of Quebec, started vaccinating its members against COVID-19 in January, a former Assembly of First Nations national chief expressed his dismay. The Cree Leadership seems to think they know what is best for us, Matthew Coon Come wrote on social media. Mistissini is now the experimental rats of this experimental vaccine.
As Canada s vaccine rollout progresses in fits and starts this year, some Indigenous leaders and others are expressing concern about vaccine hesitancy in their communities. They attribute the reluctance to deep-rooted mistrust of public health-care facilities and providers a problem that reflects decades of troubled relations between Indigenous peoples and Canadian institutions.
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Some Indigenous peopleâs fear of the vaccine is not rooted in conspiracy theory, says one researcher, but in well-documented fact of Indigenous peopleâs treatment by the health-care system that is brutally unjust.
Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan-Pool February 22, 2021 - 6:00 AM Devin Sampare is clear that he’s not an anti-vaxxer. “My children got all the same vaccines I got as a kid,” he says. “I’m just very conscious about weighing risks, using discernment and making sure what I’m putting in is going to benefit me.”