When the COVID-19 vaccine was made available in the North, Jessica Deleary wasn’t sure she was going to get it.
“I was kind of hesitant, just because of the speed with which it was created,” said the resident of Dettah, a First Nations community just outside Yellowknife. “[W]e don’t know exactly what’s inside [it] and we don’t know what’s going to happen, what the long-term side effects are. And those were real, real concerns for me, especially because I was expecting.”
The mother of five asked several doctors if the vaccine was safe for her while she was pregnant. Some told
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