Health committee  I think my own province is, and I appreciate tremendously the pressure our premier is under. I think he's done a marvellous job given the cards he's been dealt, but I'm also aware there are a lot of folks who want to get back to business. I'm not sure whether doing a screen sha

Health committee  Right.

Health committee  The resurgences will happen. It's just how this works. It's simple math. The reproduction of a disease is number of contacts times the probability of transmission per contact times how long a person is infectious for. We can forget about immunity right now, because immunity is lo

Health committee  My apologies. We're going to go too far. We're going to try to open things up and go too far. That's why we need strong surveillance systems, to see that as it happens.

Health committee  I don't know. Mr. Ciciretto is an expert on how labs work and could probably give you a more meaningful answer than I could. We do work with local public health units. My concern at the moment is that it's not just the testing. If people are saying we're going to do contact tra

Health committee  I'm not sure, though I could add my perspective as a researcher based in Toronto since 2006. What I've always found astounding is the failure to make accessible data that are paid for, assembled and cleaned on the public dime available to Canadians in a manner that doesn't threa

Health committee  I'm sorry.

Health committee  Thank you.

Health committee  I think part of the difficulty relates to the fact that viruses are the troublemakers, and Dr. Khan alluded to this. The troublemakers tend to be RNA viruses, that's their genetic material that comes from animals. RNA viruses are very good at mutating. What we see with this virus

Health committee  Honourable committee members, thank you for the privilege of appearing before you. The last several months have offered us as a country extraordinary challenges. As an epidemiologist, internist and parent, these challenges have subsumed every part of my work life and my persona