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Manitoba First Nation Pandemic Response Coordination Team public health lead Dr. Marcia Anderson: “We’re going to see even higher hospitalization rates in even younger First Nations people, if we don’t do something about it.
OTTAWA First Nations leaders are trying to drum up an interest in COVID-19 vaccinations and fight conspiracy theories to avoid a catastrophic third wave.
OTTAWA First Nations leaders are trying to drum up an interest in COVID-19 vaccinations and fight conspiracy theories to avoid a catastrophic third wave. We’re going to see even higher hospitalization rates in even younger First Nations people, if we don’t do something about it, Dr. Marcia Anderson said Friday, just moments after Manitoba officials said the province has entered its third wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Ma Mawi will be providing wraparound supports for those who need it, in addition to COVID-19 testing.(Walther Bernal/CBC)
A new rapid COVID-19 testing facility has opened in Winnipeg s North End to help make it easier for urban Indigenous people, as well as those travelling to First Nations, to be tested for the illness.
Starting Tuesday, the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre on King Street will offer COVID-19 testing to people who are symptomatic and those who need a COVID-19 test prior to travelling to a northern community, according to Monday s COVID-19 bulletin issued by the Manitoba government.
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Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson
Indigenous people are mobilizing to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the most vulnerable Manitobans.
Indigenous people are mobilizing to contain the spread of COVID-19 among the most vulnerable Manitobans.
Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre announced Thursday it will start to offer both rapid screening and conventional COVID-19 tests at its 445 King St. location starting Tuesday.
The staff are all Indigenous people, noted Ma Mawi head Diane Redsky. They come from our community and they’re here… to reduce the anxiety, while we are protecting our future.
Rapid-screening devices are less accurate at detecting COVID-19 than laboratory testing, but they’re good at detecting those who have high viral loads without even knowing they re infected and thus the most likely to spread the virus.
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