The Avoidable Tragedy: How Canadian Public Health Failed to Curb the Carnage of COVID-19
By: Tori Marlan
One factor that accounts for the provinces’ different outcomes was the timing of specific policy responses, according to Samir Sinha, the National Institute on Ageing’s director of health policy research. These measures included restricting non-essential visits, limiting staff to working at one site, and requiring staff and visitors to wear surgical masks. “Provinces that acted more definitively and earlier probably have helped to avoid a number of unnecessary outbreaks from occurring,” Sinha said.