Side Effects Public Media Rudy Papakee, the director of the Meskwaki Health Center, has been at the center of the Meskwaki Nation s COVID-19 response, coordinating testing and vaccinations and advising the tribal council on restrictions.
In the waiting room of the Meskwaki Tribal Health Center in Tama County, Iowa, Genesis Ramirez gripped a digital timer, her legs swinging in a chair.
The 17-year-old just got her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, but she didn’t do it just to keep herself safe. My family is very high risk, and I don t want to bring anything back to them where I can t help them, she said.
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In the waiting room of the Meskwaki Tribal Health Center, Genesis Ramirez gripped a digital timer, her legs swinging in a chair.
The 17-year-old just got her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, but she didn’t do it just to keep herself safe.
The Meskwaki Health Center has been hosting COVID-19 vaccination clinics since December. It offers those who get vaccinated a free t-shirt, mask, and reusable shopping bag.
Credit Natalie Krebs/Iowa Public Radio News My family is very high risk, and I don t want to bring anything back to them where I can t help them, she said.
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Rudy Papakee, the director of the Meskwaki Health Center, has been at the center of the Meskwaki Nation s COVID-19 response, coordinating testing and vaccinations and advising the tribal council on restrictions.
The number of Iowans who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 is still far below what experts say is needed for herd immunity, and demand for the vaccine is decreasing.
State officials say 88 of Iowa’s 99 counties have recently declined all or part of their vaccine allocation. But there’s one place in Iowa that is nearing the herd immunity threshold the Meskwaki Nation.
Natalie Krebs The Meskwaki Health Center has been hosting COVID-19 vaccination clinics since December. It offer those who get vaccinated a free t-shirt, mask and reusable shopping bag.
Donald W. Wanatee Sr. regularly spent as many as 100 hours a week away from the Meskwaki Indian Settlement as he tirelessly advocated for Native American people and issues around the country, often sparing his last dollars to get from place to place.
When he was home, he took his kids on hikes through the Meskwaki Nation s heavily wooded settlement in Tama County, Iowa. He taught them how to grow crops and, being a hobby cartographer, how to navigate forests, said Donnielle J. Wanatee, one of his eight children. As a social worker, he understood kids needs and instilled in each of his own children a lifelong sense of individuality, she said.
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