Medical experimentation and the roots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Indigenous Peoples in Canada

• Published in: Canadian Medical Association journal (CMAJ) Vol. 193; no. 11; pp. E381 - E383
• Main Authors: Mosby, Ian, Swidrovich, Jaris
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Elsevier Inc 15.03.2021; CMA Joule Inc; CMA Impact, Inc; Joule Inc
• Subjects: Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; Canada; Canadian native peoples; Colonialism; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - prevention & control; COVID-19 - psychology; COVID-19 vaccines; COVID-19 Vaccines - therapeutic use; Demographic aspects; Experiments; Health aspects; Health behavior; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; History; History of medicine; Human subjects; Humanities; Humans; Immunization; Indigenous Peoples - psychology; Internal Medicine; Medical research; Native North Americans; Native peoples; Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology; Racism; Socioeconomic Factors; Vaccination Refusal - psychology; Vaccine hesitancy; Vaccines; Canada; Saskatchewan Canada; Manitoba Canada

For a start, doctors and other health professionals in Canada need to educate themselves before going into communities to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Too many are unaware of Canada's shameful histories of racially segregated health care and medical experimentation, and therefore misunderstand...