Experts are calling for an independent national inquiry into Canada\u0027s COVID\u002D19 response in articles published in the British Medical Journal
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“A disturbing COVID fallout is the growing and social political divisiveness, which is ignored at Canada’s peril,” the authors wrote. Canada has recorded a total of at least 53,063 COVID-related deaths, and nearly 4.7 million infections.Article content “In the absence of a coordinated pandemic planning authority, the supporting evidence and rationale for different rules in different places were often unclear,” they said.
“For health workers, the post-pandemic feeling is exacerbation — even rage — about the inertia of governments, health authorities and professional medical associations and their failure to tackle the depth of the dysfunction in Canada’s health-care system,” the editorial’s authors wrote. Underpaid and undervalued staff faced a lack of personal protective equipment, and even bed linens and wound care supplies. When the Canadian Armed Forces were deployed to seven Ontario homes, “military personnel reported hearing residents crying out for help from 30 minutes to two hours, while awaiting staff response.” Residents weren’t appropriately bathed or toileted. Twenty-six people likely died from dehydration at one home alone before the military arrived.
“Like putting a fire out in a neighbour’s yard, delivering vaccines wherever they can most effectively reduce transmission is the best use of scarce resources,” she wrote.
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