Health committee  It was a uniquely unhelpful thing that the Prime Minister did when he said that. It was politically driven. It did not help anyone in the health care industry. It did not convince anyone to change their mind. The people who remain unvaccinated right now are very much a mixed bag

Health committee  We must preserve our capacity to treat all patients. We must increase our capacity to treat patients who are sick from severe viral illnesses. That, basically, has to impact how we think about the virus and our ability to adjust our risk tolerance. It also mostly has to do with m

Health committee  At this point, many of the people who are not vaccinated are in small groups, smaller communities, and I think that if we're really going to get those people to get vaccinated, we have to reach out to them with very specific programs. Whether it be a religious group or a cultural

Health committee  I can take that, if you want.

Health committee  We've learned that vaccines work. Public health interventions work. Masking works. We generally have a very compliant society. We have a society that cares for its neighbours. We have a society that cares for the health of the elderly. We have been very compliant, both in getting

Health committee  Without a diagnosis, there can be no treatment. Without treatment, you can't have your health. You shouldn't delay. It's very safe to go to the hospitals now, whether it be for breast screening or anything. We're at the nadir of the omicron wave. Don't delay your care any longer

Health committee  Yes, absolutely. The obvious one is breast imaging. Over the course of the pandemic, as I said, we had 300,000 women who decided not to get screened. That will have an impact on future breast cancer mortality. The other thing we saw was more complex. What we were seeing was peop

Health committee  I think Dr. Kalyan has made some very good points. We have to look at that, but I also have to look at it from a pragmatic point of view in terms of what I see in the hospital. To Dr. Kalyan's point in terms of mandates, yes, omicron was highly contagious and, no, the vaccine di

Health committee  Fantastic. Thank you so much. I was just admiring the previous speaker's opening remarks. I think that's brilliant, and I'll do that next time. What I'm going to do is just give you a very brief look into health care through the eyes of my specialty, which is diagnostic radiol