CFNR Network
Mar 8, 2021 4:01 PM
Dr. Terri Aldred, Medical Director for Primary Care at the First Nations Health Authority, explains why the COVID-19 vaccinations are good medicine.
FNHA’s Dr. Terri Lee Aldred
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Health director Verne Tom confirmed the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine would arrive anywhere between Jan. 13 and Jan. 21. Tom said the past 10 months have been challenging for many communities hit with COVID-19 and that many people are experiencing the stresses of knowing they cannot visit their family members who are in hospital. “As First Nations people, we like to interact with one another and we like to be there to support one another, and in this time, we can’t because of COVID,” he said. Nak’azdli Whut’en is one of the latest Indigenous communities selected to receive vaccines. The first wave of the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out was launched Dec. 23 in 10 rural and remote Indigenous communities in B.C., mostly in the north, where health care services are limited.