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Covid free country in the world
Covid Free Country In The World
There are few Covid free country in the world, do you planning a trip to a foreign country? Well, the coronavirus crash was a huge blow. In times like these, you cannot travel. As in the previous year, everyone entered the jail and was banned from leaving. Many COVID-free destinations are now opening up new locations and lifting the ban.
Thanks to the Covid-19 vaccines, we are finally able to complete our travel plans. So if your vacation was interrupted last year, you may be able to return it. But listen, you need to know if your destination is on the list of COVID-19-free destinations. In recent months, many citizens have received passes to travel to these places. Well, this is a great and fun experience.
Plan your trip to these covid free country in the world
The pandemic has affected not only all countries. Thanks to the regulations, several countries were saved, and if you really want to, you can go to these places.
Be sure to take the necessary precautions when traveling. Places like the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Bahrain attract tourists. While some countries previously restricted travel for primary purposes only, many have now excluded them as secondary. But, if you are traveling to one of these places, you must take the Covid-19 test.
Also, after passing the test, you will be quarantined. So, you may not be able to immediately see the beauty of this place, but you will definitely do it. WorldTripFinder.net has compiled a list of places you can go to. So let’s go.
Maldives
Who wouldn’t want to visit the Maldives? We all dream of visiting the Maldives. It is often referred to as a dream destination by many for the right reasons.
The Maldives was completely isolated for four months but reopened its borders in July to welcome tourists from all over the world. Thus, the Maldives became one of the first COVID-free destinations in the world where travel is allowed.
The Maldives is known for its luxurious beaches and white sand beaches. And we cannot simply deny the beauty of corals and the purest blue waters of the sea.
Unlike most COVID-free countries in the world, tourists are not required to undergo quarantine and testing. However, travelers must sign a health declaration. When roaming, the use of masks is mandatory.
In addition, tourists visiting the Maldives during this period must obtain confirmation from the Ministry of Tourism regarding their booking. While there are no strict travel laws in the Maldives, there are some rules you will need to follow when returning home.
Unless you are a tourist visiting the Maldives, you will need to isolate yourself and place yourself in quarantine for 14 days. In addition, they must also register on the Haalubelun portal to comply with the safety rules.
Oman
Oman, or Sultanate of Oman, on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, is one of the covid free country in the world.
While the country is gaining in importance, they are also taking steps to develop tourism. According to them, for this, citizens from 103 countries will not need to provide an entry visa to stay in the country for up to 10 days. However, tourists who visit this place must follow some rules and provide all the details of their trip.
Travelers must also provide proof of health insurance to the Sultanate of Oman in order to obtain an entry visa. Since there is no COVID here, you can plan your trip here.
But why go to Oman? Well, Oman does have some great places to visit. Some of these more popular ones include the following
Wahiba sands
nutmeg
Salalah
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This article supposed to make us dislike the UK entry for Eurovision I guess but has had the opposite effect in making me think she's great actually! GB news falls flat once again lmaooo
#them trying to say she hates the UK bcos she tweeted 'i hate this country' when the government took away free school meals during covid#girlboss actually#eurovision#united kingdom
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masks are sensory hell
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I still fucking wear them everywhere
#absolutely dying on this 9 hr train#every single outbreath tickles parts of my face#I hate it hate it hate it#I want to be free#fuck Covid#fuck people#fuck Northern hemisphere rich countries
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Really did not expect the government of a nation as remarkably & incessantly islamophobic as Spain to be riding for palestine like this. Did not see this coming at all. A colonizer siding against her brethren.
#they are also hella antisemitic and Christian it was really a toss up#it's like when covid hit and we were like which is gonna win - the plague or racism?#oh OK racism it is girl#but I guess Spain literally stole their entire culture from the Arabs so...(and the entire society is run by a huge arab/Palestinian pop.)#or maybe they just still really hate the British who knows#Arab Spaniards this not about you I see you I love you you kept me fed in that godforsaken country#Spain ur still a piece of shit girlie I won't forget#free palestine
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Both people I live with have covid. I tested negative but the chances I'll scrap by not getting it from either of them is next to none especially since I share a room & bed with my partner so like.
First time getting covid here we go I guess
#I keep telling my partner's mom to tell his shitty sister to test because she's been sick multiple times the last couple months & his mom#goes to her place multiple times a week to do all her packing for her to move AGAIN. but ofc she still won't and she's a fucking nurse so#it's all extra fucking annoying#thankfully I work remote and made a bunch of curry and rice today so we should all be good to just. hunker down#partner's mom got the covid medicine for free & we should be able to too under our insurance. guess how much they sell it for :)#if you guessed anything lower than $1350 then you were wrong :) sure fucking love living in a country that has for profit healthcare :)))
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HE TOLD US HE'D BE BACK!! YOU CAN'T BURY THE LEFT WING IN THIS COUNTRY
#you guys brazil's history in the last 10 or so years have been so fucking insane#what started as a general discontentment over a rise in the public transport fare prices somehow turned into#an unprecedented reactionary extremist right-wing wave that only got worse and worse through the years#our first and only woman president suffered a literal coup and in the 2 years we were governed by the mild right#a politician who did nothing - and i do not say this lightly - literally NOTHING in like 20 years as a deputy gained so much popularity and#social media attention using nothing but hate speech fake news and the instrumentalization of the Christian faith and masses#somehow won over the public opinion - thru dishonesty n prejudice that's how - and was elected president. that's bols*naro#his mandate was marked by lies prejudice incompetence and negligence. thousands of ppl were literally dying in brazil everyday bc of covid#and u know what he did? mocked them. said he wasn't an undertaker so it wasn't his problem. mocked ppl's difficulty to breathe. caused a#animosity in the population against SCIENCE and health organizations. schemed to overprice when buying vaccines when companies were willing#to give them to us literally for free so the government could cash in. not to mention he dismantled federal operations against crime just#bc they were the left-wing govt's legacy he messed with the legitimacy of the federal police when it went after his sons he created a#scheme to divert public money into politician's pockets instead of employing the resources in u know. the public collective well-being#his govt created a law to protect said politicians and hide the money for 100 FUCKING YEARS from public records#the lost money already amounts to over 65 billion reais. that's roughly 12 billion dollars in taxpayers money. all lost#and he and his supporters have the NERVE to say he's an honest man. that he's a Christian. that he represents goodness.#when he did nothing but spew lies and prejudice and kill us and fuck us over the past 4 years.#his government is the definition of fear politics and necropolitics. it's a stain in the fabric of our country's history. it's never been#anything but a threat to our democracy. our senate n house of deputies r filled with bigoted extremist right-wingers now. but we have hope#now we can have hope! lula has been dishonest and corrupt in the past. he should pay for what he's done like almost every single high#ranking politician in this country should. but not like it was done! after they staged a coup against his ally they unjustly arrested and#convicted him SPECIFICALLY so he couldn't run for president. they KNEW our country would choose him. if he was free bols*naro would've#NEVER won. he's wrong and corrupt and now a convicted criminal turned free man but he represents our country and our democracy!#he's always been our only hope! he's not the right choice but the only choice. and that's how now we have - for the 1st time in history#- not only a president serving a historical THIRD mandate but a president who was arrested and freed between mandates#which is. fucking insane if u ask me#also blsnr is the first president ever in the history of brazil to not be able to be reelected lmfao fucking loser#what's also historical is our divide. lula won by 1.8% can u IMAGINE how split the public opinion is rn#but we won! and we're free of this vermin and on our way to rebuild our country. and i couldn't be happier or feel lighter#and not to mention they tried to stage another covert coup literally during the voting process today 😶🌫️ but anyways
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July Albums.
July 1st: Further Joy, The Regrettes
July 2nd: MUNA, MUNA
July 3rd: I Blame The World, Sasha Alex Sloan
July 4th: Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
July 5th: Hot Fuss, The Killers
July 6th: Sam’s Town, The Killers
July 7th: Day & Age, The Killers
July 8th: Battle Born, The Killers
July 9th: Wonderful Wonderful, The Killers
July 10th: Imploding the Mirage, The Killers
July 11th: Pressure Machine, The Killers
July 12th: Sawdust, The Killers
July 13th: The Execution of All Things, Rilo Kiley [recommended by @kymal]
July 14th: Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa
July 15th: The Head and the Heart, The Head and the Heart
July 16th: Special, Lizzo
July 17th: Signs of Light, The Head and the Heart
July 18th: Hadestown, Original Broadway Cast
July 19th: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix
July 20th: Bankrupt!, Phoenix
July 21st: Coyote Stories, The Crane Wives
July 22nd: The Queen is Dead, The Smiths
July 23rd: Flamingo, Brandon Flowers
July 24th: The Desired Effect, Brandon Flowers
July 25th: Ghost Town, Lauren Aquilina
July 26th: Indestructible, Disturbed
July 27th: Build a Problem, Dodie
July 28th: Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park
July 29th: Meteora, Linkin Park
July 30th: Minutes to Midnight, Linkin Park
July 31st: A Thousand Suns, Linkin Park
#one album each day 2k22#i apologize that i haven't been able to keep up with my usual updates on the albums#turns out that catching covid -- finishing up work -- and trying to get all my ducks in a row before i move countries#takes a lot of mental energy#but feel free to drop me a message if you'd like me to talk more in depth about a particular album
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Got 2nd booster shot yesterday (4th overall), and damn, not since the first shot did i feel those side effects that intense.
Literally like making a choice between laying in bed all day (which makes all my blood turn to jelly and causes headache) or walking around at least even though my bones and muscles ache so...
#but still. the pandemic is pandemic and im actually really happy that my country allowed those fourth shots#we've got some numbers rising (our fourth wave is building) so. the mandatory masks are back. plus - the new boosters were bought#tbh can i show off a bit bc last day when i got the vacc i just got reminded what a great response my country has had to the pandemic#like - lockdowns for two months with everyone (over18) being paid two and a half months minimal pay#all the vaccinations being free. even the expensive ones like Pfizer#i mean hell - in 2020 when they realized the danger of anti-vaxers they countered with a lottery in which all who'd get two shots would ent#er. the prizes being - an apartment. and two cars (yeah we stole the idea from russia it was still cool)#(like you could only enter the lottery if you were from one of cities with over a million citizens so i couldnt. but how cool is that)#and im sure so many more things. two covid hospitals were built (my grandma stayed in one of them and said they were amazing. so modern)#all while a fucking regime change was happening and the scumpiest politicians were leaving the country with all its money#and they and their assets were hunted down (we still are waiting for the history-defining lawsuits against them)#its just. its so fucking good that western chokehold upon us is over. their puppets if not gone then rendered impotent#theyve always made us feel afraid we wouldnt survive without their investments#but like man - despite despite despite we're thriving#i wish to all the countries - the western empire is crumbling. let it die soon for us all to live in the world without it)
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#sorry this is just my own political thoughts since the elections are coming up#i understand that voting for the lesser of 2 evils is important#and that we should really try to keep trump out of office again#but i don't think anyone's being honest about what the lesser evil is#yes he's made good progress for our domestic rights#but he's also been negligent during the ongoing covid problem#he's allowed roe v wade to fall while going behind congress' back to give Isreal more munitions#and recently to start up immigration policies that he criticized trump for#i also just feel like if we make “genocide in another country” the lesser of 2 evils we're already fucked#like our political parties have already been moving further and further right#by making the democrats actions “the left wing option” we're just scooching it even farther#not to mention it actually restricts free because if being against the genocide is seen as radical thought#then that gives politicians the incentive to violently supress us more than they have been#which literally no one is mentioning!#i just don't know i feel like the only real option is if both spontaneously die real soon#which won't happen because they're rich and evil
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My very last comic for The Nib! End of an era! Transcription below the cut. instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book / redbubble
The first event I went to with GENDER QUEER was in NYC in 2019 at the Javits Center.
So many of the people who came to my signing were librarians, and so many of them said the same thing: "I know exactly who I want to give this to!"
Maia: "Thank you for helping readers find my book!"
While working on the book, I was genuinely unsure if anyone outside of my family and close friends would read it. But the early support of librarians and two American Library Association awards helped sell two print runs in first year.
Since then, GENDER QUEER been published in 8 languages, with more on the way: Spanish, Czech, Polish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese and Dutch.
It has also been the most banned book in the United States for the past two years.
The American Library Association has tracked an astronomical increase in book challenges over the past few years. Most of these challenges are to books with diverse characters and LGBTQ themes. These challenges are coming unevenly across the US, in a pattern that mirrors the legislative attacks on LGBTQ people.
The Brooklyn Public Library offered free eCards to anyone in the US aged 13-21, in an effort to make banned books more available to young readers. A teacher in Norman, Oklahoma gave her students the QR code for the free eCard and lost her job. Summer Boismeir is now working for the Brooklyn Public Library.
Hoopla and Libby/Overdrive, apps used to access digital library books, are now banned in Mississippi to anyone under 18. Some libraries won’t allow anyone under 18 to get any kind of library card without parental permission.
When librarians in Jamestown, Michigan refused to remove GENDER QUEER and several other books, the citizens of the town voted down the library’s funding in the fall 2022 election. Without funding, the library is due to close in mid-2024.
My first event since covid hit was the American Library Association conference in June 2022 in Washington, DC. Once again, the librarians in my signing line all had similar stories for me: “Your book was challenged in our district"
"It was returned to the shelf!"
"It was removed from the shelf..."
"It was moved to the adult section."
Over and over I said: "Thank you. Thank you for working so hard to keep my book in your library. I’m sorry you had to defend it, but thank you for trying, even if it didn't work."
We are at a crossroads of freedom of speech and censorship. The future of libraries, both publicly funded and in schools, are at stake. This is massively impacting the daily lives of librarians, teachers, students, booksellers, and authors around the country. In May 2023, I read an article from the Washington Post analyzing nearly 1000 of the book challenges from the 2021-2022 school year. I was literally on route to a festival to talk about book bans when I read a startling statistic.
60% of the 1000 book challenges were submitted by just 11 people. One man alone was responsible for 92 challenges. These 11 people seem to have made submitting copy-cat book challenges their full-time hobby and their opinions are having an outsized ripple effect across the nation.
WE NEED TO MAKE THE VOICES SUPPORTING DIVERSE BOOKS AND OPPOSING BOOK BANS EVEN LOUDER.
If you are able too, show up for your library and school board meetings when book challenges are debated. Send supportive comments and emails about the Pride book display and Drag Queen story hours. If you see a display you like– for Banned Book Week, AAPI Month, Black History Month, Disability Awareness Month, Jewish holidays, Trans Day of Remembrance– compliment a librarian! Make sure they feel the love stronger than the hate <3
Maia Kobabe, 2023
The Nib
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Haha, I sure my scratchy throat is just from being tired and using my inhaler and not from
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MY STUPID COWORKER COMING INTO WORK WITH COVID YESTERDAY
#covid#just stay home if you're feeling sick#jfc#getting a doctor's note is fucking free in this shithole country
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I don't think people from the united states understand just how hellish their country sounds like what do you mean cashiers can't sit down while they work twelve-hour shifts? why are you paying for vaccines, why haven't your government provided them for free? why do you feel uncomfortable when young adults are still living with their parents but bankruptcy at 18 sounds okay? why do you pay for lunch if the school is public, shouldn't lunch be free too?
#it's just so absurd#everything sounds very absurd#I think it's insane how normalized these very wild scenarios are#Brazil is a first world country and extremely civilized in comparison!#here in Brazil the covid vaccines are free#the boosters - any of them. all of them - are also free#our cashiers sit down#It's okay to live with your parents after eighteen#we have public universities - the very best of the country are all public universities#in public schools the lunch is given to anyone that wants to eat and that's not all: there's breakfast and dinner too if there's class#meaning: if there's morning afternoon and night classes then there's breakfast lunch and dinner served#of course there is#why wouldn't?#I feel like that's the core absurdity of all: why wouldn't?#why wouldn't the cashier sit down?#why wouldn't the vaccine be given for free?#why wouldn't lunch be served to children?#united states#brazil
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So Benny *was* made aware that his last show was a super spreader, but instead of addressing it he’s just asking people to be careful for his upcoming shows. I have to laugh 😂😂😂😂
Me though that it was more of a standard girls look after yerselves when ye out and about kind of talk cuz ye know, men are monsters?
But now when ye frame it this waaaay
I mean kinda not his fault cuz it's the overall society that decided to 'live with the virus' is just to say 'this is how it is now' and hit that ignore button lol ON THE OTHER HAND this is the pop up that comes up on his venue website sooooo idk seems to me like saying take care is easier than very possibly cutting ticket sales
#i mean like good for me#cuz i can laugh#bless to everyone attending#especially to people who have vulnerable peeps at home#me question here is really hun?#i said it mannnnny times and i stand by it till me dying breath#if someone says covid not scary and vaccine bad mask bad#if they end up in need of medical assistance just leave them on the streets#free country their choice#btw#this one guy#obvi one of the big pharma bad guys#his 90 something years old grandma got sick weeks after getting the vaccine so its a poison#he told me that humans are social creatures and we need to go to pubs and clubs or we will go crazy#and people happy to be staying home are mentally ill#meaning me among other people#he is also the guy who gave the whole office covid back in 2021#including me x.x the only time ive got covid and it took me WEEKS to get to negative#but at least i started the blog soooo
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it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.
yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.
right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.
the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.
these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.
it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.
we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.
secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)
whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.
they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")
and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."
i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.
one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.
i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.
#i can't believe i have to say this#the conservative party is legit like ''is it anything good? okay we hate it.''#''lets kill lgbt people and ummmmm school children shouldnt be able to read they should be at home watching jordan peterson :)"#the fact that it's like all related is. wild.#like it's wild bc if u start being like. actually making it impossible to afford housing is part of how they keep the nuclear family.....#it's just like lines connecting to lines. EXCEPT ITS OBVIOUS?#what's wild to me about most conspiracy theorists is that they're like . ohhhh the govt is hiding shit!!!!!!! they don't want u to know!!!#and im like. this old man literally got up on stage and said he hates public education and will let our kids die before taking away ak-47s#and ppl are like: lol thats just bob's sense of humor he didn't mean it literally uwu
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"Growing up, Mackenzee Thompson always wanted a deeper connection with her tribe and culture.
The 26-year-old member of the Choctaw Nation said she grew up outside of her tribe’s reservation and wasn’t sure what her place within the Indigenous community would be.
Through a first-of-its-kind program, Thompson said she’s now figured out how she can best serve her people — as a doctor.
Thompson is graduating as part of the inaugural class from Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation. It’s the first physician training program on a Native American reservation and in affiliation with a tribal government, according to school and tribal officials.
“I couldn’t even have dreamed this up,” she said. “To be able to serve my people and learn more about my culture is so exciting. I have learned so much already.”
Thompson is one of nine Native graduates, who make up more than 20 percent of the class of 46 students, said Dr. Natasha Bray, the school’s dean. There are an additional 15 Native students graduating from the school’s Tulsa campus.
The OSU-COM graduates include students from 14 different tribes, including Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Alaska Native, Caddo, and Osage.
Bray said OSU partnered with the Cherokee Nation to open the school in 2020 to help erase the shortage of Indigenous doctors nationwide. There are about 841,000 active physicians practicing in the United States. Of those, nearly 2,500 — or 0.3 percent — are Native American, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
When American Indian and Alaska Native people visit Indian Health Service clinics, there aren’t enough doctors or nurses to provide “quality and timely health care,” according to a 2018 report from the Government Accountability Office. On average, a quarter of IHS provider positions — from physicians to nurses and other care positions –are vacant.
“These students here are going to make a generational impact,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. told the students days before graduation. “There is such a need in this state and in this region for physicians and this school was created out of a concern about the pipeline of doctors into our health system.”
The Cherokee Nation spent $40 million to build the college in its capital of Tahlequah. The walls of the campus feature artifacts of Cherokee culture as well as paintings to remember important figures from Cherokee history. An oath of commitment on the wall is written in both English and Cherokee.
The physician training program was launched in the first year of the pandemic.
Bray said OSU and Cherokee leadership felt it was important to have the school in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, home to more than 141,000 people, because students would be able to get experience treating Indigenous patients. In Tahlequah, students live and study in a small town about an hour east of Tulsa with a population of less than 24,000 people.
“While many students learn about the problems facing these rural communities,” Bray said. “Our students are getting to see them firsthand and learn from those experiences.”
While students from the college are free to choose where to complete their residency after graduation, an emphasis is placed on serving rural and Indigenous areas of the country.
There’s also a severe lack of physicians in rural America, a shortage that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association of American Medical Colleges has projected that rural counties could see a shortage between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034. An additional 180,000 doctors would be needed in rural counties and other underserved populations to make up the difference.
Bray said OSU saw an opportunity to not only help correct the underrepresentation of Native physicians but also fill a workforce need to help serve and improve health care outcomes in rural populations.
“We knew we’d need to identify students who had a desire to serve these communities and also stay in these communities,” she said.
Osteopathic doctors, or DOs, have the same qualifications and training as allopathic doctors, or MDs, but the two types of doctors attend different schools. While MDs learn from traditional programs, DOs take on additional training at osteopathic schools that focus on holistic medicine, like how to reduce patient discomfort by physically manipulating muscles and bones. DOs are more likely to work in primary care and rural areas to help combat the health care shortages in those areas.
As part of the curriculum, the school invited Native elders and healers to help teach students about Indigenous science and practices...
Thompson said she was able to bring those experiences into her appointments. Instead of asking only standard doctor questions, she’s been getting curious and asking about her patient’s diets, and if they are taking any natural remedies.
“It’s our mission to be as culturally competent as we can,” she said. “Learning this is making me not only a better doctor but helping patients trust me more.”
-via PBS NewsHour, May 23, 2024
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