Native Americans Willing to Vaccinate to Protect Community A survey found Indigenous people are more willing than the general public to get the COVID-19 vaccine, as a responsibility to their community. An increase in community-based messaging could boost acceptance. Melissa Hellmann, The Seattle Times | February 1, 2021 | News
(TNS) Hundreds of cars wrapped around the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation s health clinic, where tribal employees and their families lined up Sunday to receive their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination. Music by Lauryn Hill played over a speaker as volunteers in white tents registered patients in their cars.
Lawrence Foulkes, a 32-year-old computer technician and enrolled Muckleshoot Tribal member, received his first dose from the comfort of his car that morning. Though he was nervous, Foulkes got vaccinated to protect his multigenerational household, which has member
After her longtime friend died of COVID-19, Abigail Echo-Hawk sat in her chair crying.
She wondered if her friend and mentor, a Native American like her, would be counted among the deaths – a worry that only added to her grief.
“I couldn’t help this thought that ran through my head: Is his story going to be present in the data? Or did we lose him even there?” she said of the tribal leader in his mid-50s.
Echo-Hawk is chief research officer at the Seattle Indian Health Board and a member of the We Must Count Coalition. The group of health equity leaders calls for better health data tracking to shed light on racial disparities because people of color suffer disproportionate rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths as a result of longstanding systemic inequities and racism.
The publication highlighted an unsealed FBI search warrant that it obtained, which revealed Bradenburg s far-out beliefs, including that the Earth is flat. Elsewhere, the report highlighted one co-worker who told investigators that Brandenburg believed the microchipped vaccine was designed to turn off people s birth control and make others infertile.
Brandenburg who reportedly maintained that Judgment Day is coming also allegedly carried a 0.45-caliber handgun to work in case the military came to detain him.
In an interview with FBI agents, Brandenburg admitted he spoiled the vaccines because he believed they had the ability to alter human DNA. He apologized for his actions and pointed to his contentious divorce as a significant influence on his judgment.
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After her longtime friend died of COVID-19, Abigail Echo-Hawk sat in her chair crying.
She wondered if her friend and mentor, a Native American like her, would be counted among the deaths – a worry that only added to her grief.
“I couldn’t help this thought that ran through my head: Is his story going to be present in the data? Or did we lose him even there?” she said of the tribal leader in his mid-50s.
SEATTLE Earlier this month, Mt. Baker Housing filed a 233-unit redevelopment plan for the 3.3-acre Thunderbird Treatment Center, at 9236 Renton Ave. S. Now, via an LLLP, it s paid $7.5 million for the property, according to King County records. Public records indicate acquisition loans from the city and Enterprise Community Loan Fund.
The seller was the Seattle Indian Health Board, which acquired the property in 1990 for about $1.4 million. The nonprofit s brokers were Scott Clements and David Butler of Orion Commercial Partners. The deal was worth about $52 per square foot for the land, which is about a 10-minute walk west to Rainier Beach Station.