18-03-2022
Episode 6 – The Effects of COVID-19 & the COVID Vaccination of the Indigenous People of Canada
Dr Evan Adams MD - Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Indigenous Services Canada talks about the experiences of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis people of Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID vaccination of these communities.Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/SekNL1-5CHQLearn more at: https://kojalamedical.com/covid19theanswers/https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100013785/1529102490303https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1606941379837/1606941507767Copyright Kojala Medical 2022. All rights reserved. #KojalaMedical #DrFunmiOkunolaMD #DrEvanAdams #IndigenousPeopleAndCovid #covidadvisor #covidquestions #Covid #Covideffects #covidsymptomsTRANSCRIPT:Kojala Medical presents COVID 19 The Answers. The show that delivers the scientific evidence-based knowledge that can safely return us all to our pre-COVID lives. My name is Dr. Funmi Okunola and I'll be hosting the show. Every week you can listen to me interview a highly respected professional about the science that can reduce your risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus.Welcome to episode 6 of COVID 19: The Answers, titled 'The vaccination of the Indigenous People of Canada and the effects of COVID 19 on the Indigenous People of Canada I'd like to introduce you all to Dr Evan Adams, Dr Adams is from the Tla'amin First Nation near Powell river in British Columbia Canada. Dr Adams completed his doctor of medicine degree at the University of Calgary and his aboriginal family practice residency at Saint Paul's hospital UBC in Vancouver Canada as chief resident. He then went on to acquire a Masters of Public Health degree from John Hopkins University in Baltimore in the USA. He was the first ever aboriginal health physician advisor in the office of the Provincial Health Officer and became the deputy Provincial Health Officer in the province of British Columbia Canada in 2014 he became the first Chief Medical Officer for the newly formed First Nations Health Authority in BC. Dr Adams is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Indigenous Services Canada Dr Adams is a multi-award-winning actor, most famously starring as Thomas Builds-The-Fire in the movie, 'Smoke Signals' and has over 30 years experience as a motivational speaker. Dr Evan Adams is one of the most famous, honored and much-loved persons amongst the Indigenous People of Canada. Welcome! Ah thank you, what a very generous introduction. Oh it's very true.I've spoken to many Indigenous People and I hear nothing but high praise. Ah, that's a that's a nice feeling, thank you. So, I've been dying to ask, how a medical physician came to be a famous actor and did you have to choose between the two professions? Yeah, it actually happened the other way around. I was uh, you know, I was a fairly good student and and as a you know as a high school student was told 'oh we we so need you to get an education and return home and help with all of those all of those issues' and I think as a as a young person, that's pretty daunting and so when I was in University I was studying Biochemistry in my second year, a woman came up to me on the street and she said are you an actor and I just lied. Why did I say yes?She said come and read for me tomorrow and I did, and I was cast in the second lead in a, in a film and it was actually quite wonderful. I thought oh this is really fun, it's much better than the drudgery and the burden of training and going home and serving. It's just really light fun, but of
