In 2020, public health employees gather up reams of faxes containing information from Database A and manually enter it into Database B. The mind boggles
More and more, Ontario is gaining on Quebec in the race for Worst Performance in a Pandemic in 2020. Quebec is still reporting more cases per capita, but its curve is trending downward while Ontario’s has stubbornly plateaued. The Rest of Canada is essentially a footnote at this point: 93 per cent of new cases reported during the 24 hours ending 11 a.m. Thursday were in Ontario or Quebec.
“I want to assure you that all 52 of these people were aware of their positive diagnosis at the time and appropriately isolated,” she said in a press release. “As such, there is no increased risk to our community and our population.” By that logic there’s no need for contact tracing at all — but this is the sort of insulting nonsense we have unfortunately come to expect from our public health officials.
“Laboratories’ reports are received all together in one large fax, sometimes containing hundreds of individual lab results, which must be taken apart for further processing. Duplicate reports … are common. … Many laboratory reports lack telephone numbers.” A jurisdiction as advanced as Ontario shouldn’t need a distinguished jurist to tell it that it shouldn’t be transferring critical public health information by fax, telex, telegraph, regular mail or horse relay. But it is yet another lesson that Ontario did not learn 14 years ago from Superior Court Justice Archie Campbell’s SARS inquiry — the one that supposedly turned us into a ruthless, well-oiled anti-pandemic machine.
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