The medical lead of Manitoba's vaccine task force is urging non-Indigenous people to abstain from getting their jabs at urban Indigenous COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
Winnipeg Free Press
Province expects to reach 70 per cent first-dose target for residents 12 and older in early June By: Danielle Da Silva | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Thursday, May. 13, 2021
Last Modified: 7:37 PM CDT Thursday, May. 13, 2021 | Updates
Herd immunity is approaching.
Manitoba s vaccine task force expects that by early June, seven out of every 10 people age 12 and older will have received a COVID-19 vaccine dose.
It has been about five months since the first dose was injected in the province. But the slow, steady march to herd immunity has accelerated in the past month.
If all goes as planned, nearly 826,000 Manitobans will be vaccinated with at least one dose by June 6.
2Centre for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
3Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
4American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Throughout the Americas, most Indigenous people move through urban areas and make their homes in cities. Yet, the specific issues and concerns facing Indigenous people in cities, and the positive protective factors their vibrant urban communities generate are often overlooked and poorly understood. This has been particularly so under COVID-19 pandemic conditions. In the spring of 2020, the United Nations High Commissioner Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples called for information on the impacts of COVID-19 for Indigenous peoples. We took that opportunity to provide a response focused on urban Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. Here, we expand on that response and Indigenous and hu
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