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Posted: Dec 16, 2020 6:12 PM CT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020 A family on Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba poses for a photo through their window. The community is among the First Nations in Manitoba grappling with high COVID-19 numbers, but there are still many questions about when, and how, the communities will get COVID-19 vaccines.(Tyson Koschik/CBC) Indigenous people are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, but they were not first in line to get vaccinated when Manitobans started rolling up their sleeves on Wednesday. "Our elders, we want them to be given priority, ...

Federal Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution – December 16, 2020 On Parliament Hill, Dr. Howard Njoo, Canada’s deputy chief public health officer, conducts a technical briefing concerning Canada’s distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. He is joined by Major-General Dany Fortin, the vice-president of logistics and operations at the Public Health Agency of Canada and head of the country’s vaccine distribution efforts, Dr. Tom Wong, chief medical officer of public health for Indigenous Services Canada, and Dr. Evan Adams, deputy chief medical officer of public health for Indigenous Servic...