Sure. I'll give you two ways. One speaks a little more to the interface between public health and acute care.
One question at the beginning of the outbreak concerned capacity for care in ICUs, because we didn't know how many ventilators or how many ICU beds there were. We had done a study to try to do this brute force accounting by going hospital to hospital a few years ago, and we did come up with probably our best estimates, but there's no obvious mechanism for hospitals to talk to regions or provinces or the Public Health Agency to have this information on a contemporary basis. A mechanism to allow that to feed up at a national level would be helpful.
Second, while I think there have been very good investments from CIHR into this response, one point I wanted to make is that we often fund projects as isolated projects, clinical projects, that then have a shelf life. They tackle one question and then they're done. Not a lot of infrastructure on the ground is ready to go in the clinical research environment. For instance, there aren't research coordinators, nurses, etc., who exist longitudinally, so the start-up time is a little longer. It's hard to get that going in all parts of the country. We find ourselves trying to play catch-up.