{"id":73565,"date":"2021-08-09T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=73565"},"modified":"2021-08-09T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:26:14","slug":"busu-president-hosts-vaccine-qa-with-niagara-medical-officer-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/08\/busu-president-hosts-vaccine-qa-with-niagara-medical-officer-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSU President hosts vaccine Q&#038;A with Niagara Medical Officer of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a string of questions from students regarding the effectiveness and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine, Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU) President Rafay Rehan went straight to the source for answers \u2014 conducting an interview with Niagara Region Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mustafa Hirji.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best thing students can do to ensure a safe return to campus is to get vaccinated,\u201d said Rehan. \u201cIn order to ease any hesitation students have about getting the vaccine, it is important we communicate true medical facts. We appreciate Dr. Hirji\u2019s time in speaking with us and hope the information encourages students to get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 11-minute interview, which can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2-Uyk0IAvlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock TV YouTube channel here<\/a> and is embedded below, was conducted virtually with Dr. Hirji last week.<\/p>\n<p>The questions are anonymous and gathered via Instagram accounts belonging to BUSU (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brockbusu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BrockBUSU<\/a>) and Brock\u2019s Student Wellness and Accessibility Centre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brockswac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(@BrockSWAC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Students can ask further questions any time by emailing <a href=\"mailto:covid19nurse@brocku.ca\">covid19nurse@brocku.ca<\/a> and can book an appointment to get the COVID-19 vaccine at Brock through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/health-wellness-accessibility\/student-health-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Student Wellness and Accessibility Centre website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-Uyk0IAvlo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a string of questions from students regarding the effectiveness and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine, Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU) President Rafay Rehan went straight to the source for answers \u2014 conducting an interview with Niagara Region Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr. Mustafa Hirji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":73566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,1,4],"tags":[2203,133,8791,10135,1403,10079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73567,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73565\/revisions\/73567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}