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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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TORONTO Crystal Bell of the Matawa Health Co-operative recalls seeing elders relax and chat with each other after receiving their first COVID-19 vaccines earlier this month.
“It was almost like their little social gathering,” the director of clinical and nursing services at MHC said in an interview. “They were really thankful.”
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Bell and her team of about 20 people have run a handful of vaccinations clinics for members of nine Matawa First Nations who live in Thunder Bay, Ont., where a recent surge in COVID-19 cases has plunged the city back into lockdown.
Published Wednesday, March 17, 2021 5:41AM EDT TORONTO Crystal Bell of the Matawa Health Co-operative recalls seeing elders relax and chat with each other after receiving their first COVID-19 vaccines earlier this month. “It was almost like their little social gathering,” the director of clinical and nursing services at MHC said in an interview. “They were really thankful.” Bell and her team of about 20 people have run a handful of vaccinations clinics for members of nine Matawa First Nations who live in Thunder Bay, Ont., where a recent surge in COVID-19 cases has plunged the city back into lockdown. The first clinic opened in March after the organization raised concerns with the local public health unit that many of the new cases were Matawa members.