Thank you so much for coming, Dr. Nemer.
In your brief, you talked about dealing with scientific disinformation.
I'm a physician. I've been a physician since 1993. I worked in an ICU during the pandemic. I saw more preventable deaths than I thought possible.
According to data from the Canadian Public Health Association, vaccine hesitancy accounted for approximately 2,800 deaths in Canada. We know that scientific disinformation actually does cost human lives. We're seeing infants dying of measles now because of our shocking rate of increase in cases due to, again, misinformation about vaccines and other scientific misinformation.
How would your organization deal with this? How do we navigate getting people to trust actual scientific information?