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[Slide 1] Title slide: Event banner created by Elena Lin. Red virus particles arranged in the form of a speech bubble flow from open lips. The title “A Conversation About Viral Misinformation and Medical Mistrust with Dina Al-khooly, Roopali Chaudhary, Hiba Zafran,” written in cursive, accompanies the graphic. The date/time of the workshop, “Feb 25, 2021 4:30 to 6:00pm EST” is positioned below. A small screenshot at the bottom of the slide shows how to turn on closed captions during the Zoom live workshop.
[Slide 2] Land Acknowledgement
LEFT: Map of the world screenshotted from native-land.ca which shows the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples in overlapping colours.
RIGHT: Two screenshots of headlines from academic journals. The top one is of the article, “COVID-19 and the decolonization of Indigenous public health” by Lisa Richardson and Allison Crawford, published in CMAJ in 2020. The bottom one is of the article, “Medical experimentation and the roots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Indigenous peoples in Canada” by Ian Mosby and Jaris Swidrovich, published in CMAJ in 2021.
[Slide 3] Ground Rules
[Slide 4] Ground Rules (cont’d)
LEFT: Illustration of a figure seated in a wheelchair, motioning toward a phone showing the Twitter logo.
RIGHT: Illustration of three figures seated at a table with a laptop and a tablet. One of the figures is standing and has their hand on another figure’s shoulder.
[Slide 5] Overview of the event
[Slide 6] The virus doesn’t discriminate…
A bar graph showing hypothetical numbers of COVID-19 cases across races and ethnicities in Toronto, supposing that case numbers were directly proportional to the racial and ethnic makeup of the city. If this were true, the percentages of COVID-19 cases among white, East Asian, South Asian Indo-Carribean, Black, Southeast Asian, Arab Middle Eastern West Asian, and Latin American people should mirror the percentage of the total Toronto population that these respective groups make up.
[Slide 7] The virus doesn’t discriminate… but racism does
A bar graph reflecting real percentages of COVID-19 cases across the same racial and ethnic groups in Toronto. It is clear that the proportion of COVID-19 cases among South Asian Indo-Carribean, Black, Southeast Asian, Arab Middle Eastern West Asian, and Latin American communities is higher compared to the proportion of the total population that these individual groups make up. In contrast, COVID-19 cases are disproportionately lower among white and East Asian people (the caveat being East Asian people have experienced an uptick in race-based violence since March 2020).
[Slide 8] The virus doesn’t discriminate… but ableism does
Screenshot of a Tweet from Holly Witteman @hwitteman. Tweet reads, “The appalling ableism in health care, government, academia, and society is even more evident than usual in this pandemic. Canada is one of the worst offenders. It’s hard to take. Thread.
[Slide 9] This is nothing new
LEFT: Image of Jeri Lacks Whye, Lacks’ granddaughter with her brother David, holding up a black-and-white photo of Henrietta Lacks. All three figures are smiling, Henrietta Lacks is posed with her hands placed on her hips in the black-and-white photo.
RIGHT: Black-and-white photo of the Charles Camsell “Indian Hospital” building, an institutional-like building with rows of windows and a stone building front.
[Slide 10] Panelists
LEFT: Circular headshot of Dina Al-khooly. Dina is in front of a window and is grinning broadly. She is wearing a black high-collared top.
MIDDLE: Circular headshot of Roopali Chaudhary. Roopali is in front of a brown background and is grinning broadly. She sports a wavy hairstyle and a gray scarf and short-sleeved top.
RIGHT: Circular headshot of Hiba Zafran. Hiba is looking upwards, seemingly across the street (she is outside, and the photo is taken from below). A blue sky, a tree with bare branches, and the roof of a building are visible in the background.
[Slide 11] Don’t leave yet!
The NSERC logo is placed to the bottom right of the slide.