Boats, planes, helicopters: Canada gears up to vaccinate remote indigenous communities By Moira Warburton
FILE PHOTO: Vials and medical syringe are seen in front of Moderna logo in this illustration
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s indigenous communities have been prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine but distributing it across difficult and remote terrain will be a challenge, as authorities deploy small planes and boats to ship the drug.
Canada approved drugmaker Moderna’s vaccine on Wednesday, which most indigenous communities are expected to use because it remains stable at 2-8 Celsius (36-46 Farenheit) for 30 days, unlike Pfizer’s, which needs to be stored at -70 degrees Celsius and is only stable for a few days after thawing.
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Even though Ardith Walkem was wearing a suit and pulled a big, rolling lawyer’s briefcase behind her on her very first day in court, people made the wrong assumptions about her.
Walkem, a member of the Nlaka’pamux First Nation, was a young lawyer in the late 1990s representing two hunters in a trial in Duncan, in Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley. Walkem arrived at the courthouse early that morning, where she was promptly approached by an RCMP officer.
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