Blackfoot Doctor Says Coronavirus Spread Will Devastate Indigenous Communities
Blackfoot Doctor Says Coronavirus Spread Will Devastate Indigenous Communities

16,000 people.

19 hospital beds.

Zero ventilators.

Those are the resources Dr. Esther Tailfeathers says are available to patients at the Cardston Health Centre, which services the Kanai First Nations and other communities in southwestern Alberta.

Indigenous populations are more at-risk during a pandemic because of many existing barriers.