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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Meet the family doctor behind Jabapalooza
Description: Dr. Nili Kaplan Myrth, a family doctor in Ottawa, has 1,400 patients and 13,000 followers on Twitter. She’s been outspoken in her efforts to make sure marginalized people—like frontline workers, single parents and refugees or those who have trouble accessing transportation—get vaccines. She’s already organized two mass vaccination clinics in Ottawa, called Jabapaloozas, where she gave out more than 800 shots—not only to her own patients, but also to hundreds of others.
She has another Jabapalooza coming up in June... but only if she can get enough vaccines to pull it off. Meanwhile, her own patients b...