Alana Kennedy knows the toll COVID-19 takes.
The virus spread through her family a few months ago. Kennedy, her mom, her dad and her niece all got sick.
“We were all isolating together at my parents’ place and I was scared. We were all scared,” she said.
Her mother is still in the hospital in Saskatoon.
“My mom getting sick really crumbled my world, because she’s a rock in our family. She is the one that we go to for guidance,” Kennedy said. “She is our mom, and mom is our number one priority in our family,”
Kennedy and her family are vaccinated, and she wants others to do the same.
But in Saskatchewan — the province with the lowest vaccination rate in Canada — some Indigenous communities, along with some southern farming communities, have among the lowest COVID-19 vaccine uptake.