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Stephanie Gardiner

BIZARRE: Virus fears high among indigenous people - What They Never Told You

There were high levels of fear among Indigenous people in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AAP)

A study showing Indigenous people felt deeply anxious and afraid during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for First Nations communities to be included in critical health messaging, researchers say.

The study investigated how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in western NSW perceived the risks of the virus, including whether they would get it and how harmful they considered it to be.

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