Thank you very much for your kind remarks, first of all.
I think we have a task to do as a community, and this includes physicians, nurses, all the health care workers and representatives of government, and that is to help patients figure out whether the symptoms they have warrant emergency care or not. That is true for COVID-like symptoms and that is true for cardiac-like symptoms.
The major challenge we have, for which there is no easy answer, is to make sure that we educate all members of the public that, if they have severe symptoms—this could be shortness of breath, a cough or a high fever in the case of COVID, or it could be chest pain or it could be paralysis in the case of strokes—they seek emergency care immediately.
We have the extraordinary good fortune in Canada of having a very well-functioning emergency health care system. It would be an extreme shame—which is why it's so frustrating for those of us on the front lines—that patients who could benefit from immediate care in the fortunately infrequent situations where immediate care is necessary were forgoing that care.
What that message should sound like exactly, I'm not exactly sure. The Heart and Stroke Foundation has come up with some specific instructions to patients, but the requirement, I think, would be to come up with something simple, straightforward and available in all the languages that all our Canadian citizens speak. It would be messaging that would be widely spread to reassure individuals that emergency care is available if they just want to seek it.