Posted: Jan 08, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 8
MLA Lesa Semmler, who is a nurse and worked in health promotion for 20 years, said the government of the Northwest Territories should have provided more public health education before the vaccine arrived so it could gain wider acceptance.(Mario De Ciccio/Radio-Canada)
As the Moderna vaccine rolls out in the N.W.T., Indigenous leaders say the territorial government must address vaccine hesitancy if it wants to reach target immunization levels.
The territory received 7,200 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last week, and unveiled its
But Inuvik MLA Lesa Semmler says information sessions should have been conducted earlier by community health nurses to increase confidence in the vaccine.