Guilherme Pimentel Tenorio receives the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in the Sustainable Development Reserve of Tupe in the Negro river banks in Manaus, Brazil
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As covid-19 vaccines begin to arrive in the Andean highlands in Colombia, Maria Pito, a leader of the Nasa people, is reluctant to receive one. “As a nurse, I will be required by the clinic where I work to be vaccinated but if I had the choice, I would not take it and would continue to rely on traditional medicine,” she says. “I and many others don’t trust this untransparent government.”
Her distrust echoes the …
source: newscientist.com