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Collected Item: “Wealthy couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, took vaccines doses meant for Indigenous elders, authorities said”

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Wealthy couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, took vaccines doses meant for Indigenous elders, authorities said

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news article

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A wealthy couple from Vancouver, Canada flew to a remote indigenous community in the Yukon to get the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. The Yukon community was deemed a priority community for the vaccine due to the remoteness as well as the high number of elderly and high-risk residents. The members of the community are unhappy about the couple's actions and wish to see them punished.

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Yukon, Canada, vaccine, indigenous people, HST

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/26/yukon-vaccine-couple-ekaterina-baker/

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2021-01-26
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