Opinion
The COVID-19 pandemic is in a new and confusing phase. Through the tireless work of scientists, public-health officials and regulators at the national level, we are likely on a long downslope in deaths and possibly cases (a fourth wave notwithstanding). However, not much time has been spent considering what will happen once “herd immunity” has been achieved.
The COVID-19 pandemic is in a new and confusing phase. Through the tireless work of scientists, public-health officials and regulators at the national level, we are likely on a long downslope in deaths and possibly cases (a fourth wave notwithstanding). However, not much time has been spent considering what will happen once herd immunity has been achieved.
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SASKATOON Higher vaccine hesitancy persists among Black Canadians when compared to the general public, with Latinx, Arab, and Métis people also relatively unwilling to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Statistics Canada. New research found that when it came to a willingness to get jabbed, visible minorities overall (74.8 per cent) are fairly comparable to the overall population (76.9 per cent). But there are several outliers, which could be cause for concern for public health workers. When it came to Black Canadians, only 56.6 per cent of those surveyed were very or somewhat willing to get vaccinated, with only 68 per cent of Arab Canadians and 66 per cent of Latin Americans saying theyâd get a shot.
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The Covid-19 pandemic, and related school closures, has negatively affected children’s right to a quality education around the world. Indigenous children both those living in and outside of Indigenous communities frequently faced additional barriers to distance learning alternatives. Often these barriers are due to historic marginalization, exclusion, and systemic discrimination that resulted in disparities prior to the pandemic, and which can manifest in lower-incomes, lower levels of education within families, failure to adequately accommodate Indigenous languages, and under-investment in necessary infrastructure such as the internet. As an education official in the Pueblo of Jemez, a Native American community in the United States, said: “This pandemic has
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