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Health committee  I think one would be to get us here more often. There are lots of people like me out there who have a lot of good observations. The medical community really wants to talk to you guys and give you our viewpoints. The second thing right now is just to tell the public to really loo

February 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Kashif Pirzada

Health committee  Definitely. This is an underused technology. Slovakia and other countries have used it to lower their burden. Baby steps have started to be taken in Ontario on rapid testing: I think we bought 20 million of these tests, but we need 10 million to 20 million of them every week. If

February 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Kashif Pirzada

Health committee  I would say to license manufacturing here. There's a great company in Halifax, Sona Nanotech, that makes them. We can make them here. We can license them from Abbott as well. We need tens of millions of these tests every month. We need lots of them. Get them into schools. Get the

February 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Kashif Pirzada

Health committee  I think it's something to be considered. The variant is way more contagious; there is airborne spread. Just look at the building outbreak in Mississauga. It did not happen from people in close contact with each other. They were in vestibules, maybe in elevators. Everything needs

February 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Kashif Pirzada

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for taking the time to listen to our comments today. I am pleased to present on behalf of the Critical Drugs Coalition, a grassroots group of frontline physicians, pharmacists and academics. We do not seek nor receive any kind

February 22nd, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Kashif Pirzada