Health committee  Thank you, Dr. Powlowski. Mr. Chair, I'd like to take that question back, if that's okay, given the time and given my relative lack of expertise in infectious diseases and therapeutics. We have a drugs and biologics working group that is looking at that. I appreciate the quest

Health committee  Thank you, Ms. Sidhu. I very much feel for the Brampton community. It has been very severely impacted. The science table watched with concern what was going on in Great Britain over the course of December and January. We were looking at the B.1.1.7 variant and how it affected

Health committee  We'll find out. The advice that I spoke to—the six points—are in the public domain. Again, there are a number of factors in making very important decisions. They have to make decisions one way or another on a lot of evolving evidence and a lot of grey evidence that will impact wh

Health committee  The short answer is that there are different communities and different provinces that have different levels of the pandemic, and I think the key is twofold, Mr. Chair, if I could have about 20 more seconds. One is to reduce mobility in general and reduce numbers of contacts in ge

Health committee  If I understand, your question—and correct me if I'm wrong—is really about communicating the risks and the interventions that might mitigate those risks in those specific areas that are hot spots. The answer is that, while it's not part of that six-point structure, it's certainly

Health committee  Well, I think one thing that has been done is the targeted rollout of vaccine to elderly individuals, particularly in long-term care, and we've seen a tremendous effect of that program that's been very positive. I hope other interventions like reducing crowding within long-term c

Health committee  First of all, thank you for your kind words, Ms. O'Connell. I think the biggest threat moving forward is, in fact, related to crowded workplaces and crowded workplaces in hot spots. In particular, certainly less in education and more in workplaces involved with distribution and

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for your invitation to speak with the committee today. I'm appearing here as a co-chair of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, a mostly volunteer group of 54 scientists drawn from across medical, scientific and mathematics disciplines.