Indigenous people are playing a major role in one of the latest COVID-19 anxieties: vaccine hesitancy.
As inoculation rollout begins across the country, news coverage tells us that vaccine hesitancy may hinder the pandemic response in Canada. And Indigenous people are one of the groups fuelling that concern.
What the media is saying is that Indigenous people have a tendency to be vaccine hesitant much more than the general population. That Indigenous vaccine hesitancy has taken root in the damaging effects of colonialism and that the historic mistreatment of Indigenous people has cultivated a deep distrust in the health-care system.
Indigenous people are playing a major role in one of the latest COVID-19 anxieties: vaccine hesitancy.
As inoculation rollout begins across the country, news coverage tells us that vaccine hesitancy may hinder the pandemic response in Canada. And Indigenous people are one of the groups fuelling that concern.
What the media is saying is that Indigenous people have a tendency to be vaccine hesitant much more than the general population. That Indigenous vaccine hesitancy has taken root in the damaging effects of colonialism and that the historic mistreatment of Indigenous people has cultivated a deep distrust in the health-care system.
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