‘Without early warning you can’t have early response’: How Canada’s world-class pandemic alert system failed

Months before the COVID-19 outbreak, the federal government’s early warning system went silent, just as it was needed most. The change left Canada poorly prepared as the virus began to spread rapidly around the world. Grant Robertson investigates

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