Posted: May 20, 2021 4:08 AM CT | Last Updated: May 20
Wemindji Youth Chief Douglas Hughboy is vaccinated on Jan. 18. The Cree health board is preparing a youth vaccination campaign they hope to launch before the end of the school year in June. (Credit Katherine Dehm/CBHSSJB)
The Cree health board in northern Quebec is busy planning its vaccination campaign for youth between the ages of 12 and 17.
In Eeyou Istchee, there are a couple thousand people in that age group, making up more than 10 per cent of the population, said Dr. Colleen Fuller, a public health doctor working for the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay.
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Second dose vaccination underway in Northern Quebec
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Posted: Feb 15, 2021 4:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 15
Cree Doctor Darlene Kitty, right, got vaccinated with her mother Jane and father David at the start of the Cree health board s regional vaccination campaign, which began last month. Dr. Kitty sat down for a one-on-one interview with CBC North s Celina Wapachee to answer questions and address misinformation about the Moderna vaccine. (CBHSSJB/Marcel Grogorick)
Cree doctor Darlene Kitty is helping to clarify some of the misconceptions about the COVID-19 Moderna vaccine.
Dr. Kitty wants to encourage more Quebec Cree to get vaccinated and help protect the most vulnerable people in Cree communities.
Posted: Feb 03, 2021 6:33 PM CT | Last Updated: February 4
Annie Trapper Weistche and her husband Kenneth Weistche live near Amos, Que. They are fighting to get Cree living outside the traditional Cree territory access to the COVID-19 vaccine.(submitted by Kenneth Weistche)
Some Cree living outside the jurisdictional Cree health board boundaries in northern Quebec say they feel worse than second-class citizens when it comes to getting access to a COVID-19 vaccine. Where are our rights as Cree people?, said Kenneth Weistche, who lives with his wife Annie Trapper Weistche in the non-Cree town of La Corne, just south of Amos in northern Quebec.