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'A Matter of Trust': The Grim Reality Behind Indigenous Vaccine Fears


‘A Matter of Trust’: The Grim Reality Behind Indigenous Vaccine Fears
The BC government has prioritized remote First Nations communities. But a record of health-care racism has left many skeptical.
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C reporter. Twitter: @amandajfollett.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Twitter: @moirawyton. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.
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Some Indigenous people’s fear of the vaccine is not rooted in ‘conspiracy theory,’ says one researcher, but in ‘well-documented fact of Indigenous people’s treatment by the health-care system that is brutally unjust.’
Photo by Andrew Vaughn-Pool, the Canadian Press. ....

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As the Nisga'a Wait for Vaccines, Elders are Dying


Clayton had his own close call after testing positive for the virus.
In early January, he was isolating at a Terrace hotel near Mills Memorial Hospital almost 150 kilometres south of his home.
His father was also isolating in the hotel while his mom had been admitted to the hospital, which is one of three COVID-19 emergency response centres in the North. “She didn’t want to go to the hotel. She was scared to be by herself,” Clayton says.
During a routine call, a nurse asked him to check his oxygen levels. They were dangerously low. She told him to call an ambulance. ....

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