Covid 19 coronavirus: US tribe shares vaccine with relatives, neighbours in Canada
5 May, 2021 11:22 PM
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Canadians at the Piegan-Carway border to receive a COVID-19 from the Blackfeet tribe. Photo / AP
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On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season s hottest commodity a Covid-19 vaccine from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses.
The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana provided about 1000 surplus vaccines last month to its First Nations relatives and others from across the border, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the United States and Canada are distributing doses. While more than 30 per cent of adults in the US are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3 per cent.
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On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season’s hottest commodity a COVID-19 vaccine from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses.
The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines last month to its First Nations relatives and others from across the border, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the United States and Canada are distributing doses. While more than 30% of adults in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3%.
Iris Samuels
In this Thursday, April 29, 2021, photo, Canadians drive-in at the Piegan-Carway border to receive a COVID-19 from the Blackfeet tribe near Babb, Mont. The Chief Mountain, sacred to the Blackfeet tribe towers, are seen in the background. The Blackfeet tribe gave out surplus vaccines to its First Nations relatives and others from across the border.
Image Credit: (AP Photo/Iris Samuels) May 05, 2021 - 8:00 PM BABB, Mont. - On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season’s hottest commodity a COVID-19 vaccine from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses.
Blackfeet Tribe shares vaccine with relatives, neighbors in Canada
IRIS SAMUELS
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BABB On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had driven for hours and camped out in their vehicles in hopes of receiving the season’s hottest commodity a COVID-19 vaccine from a Native American tribe that was giving out its excess doses.
The Blackfeet Tribe in northern Montana provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines last month to its First Nations relatives and others from across the border, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the United States and Canada are distributing doses. While more than 30% of adults in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3%.