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Canada’s lost months: When COVID-19′s first wave hit, governments and health officials were scattered and slow to act
ROBYN DOOLITTLE
MICHELLE CARBERT
DANIEL LEBLANC PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS REPORTER
TORONTO AND OTTAWA
PUBLISHED JUNE 25, 2020
UPDATED 20 HOURS AGO
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When Danuta Skowronski woke up on Dec. 31, 2019, she began her day the way she always does: scouring the internet to see if any new respiratory viruses had flared up overnight. Dr. Skowronski is the lead epidemiologist for influenza and emerging respiratory pathogens at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). It’s her job to sound the alarm on threats such as COVID-19 as early as possible. On that morning, that’s exactly what she did, before almost anyone else in Canada.
Multiple websites, including two of Dr. Skowonski’s go-tos – ProMED and FluTrackers.com – were reporting that a strange pneumonia in Wuhan, China, had sickened 27 people. Respiratory virus outbreaks aren’t uncommon in the infectious-disease world, especially during flu season, but something about the news made her uneasy. “You have a gut feeling,” she said. “SARS arose in a very similar fashion.”
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...vernments-and/
Canada’s lost months: When COVID-19′s first wave hit, governments and health officials were scattered and slow to act
ROBYN DOOLITTLE
MICHELLE CARBERT
DANIEL LEBLANC PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS REPORTER
TORONTO AND OTTAWA
PUBLISHED JUNE 25, 2020
UPDATED 20 HOURS AGO
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When Danuta Skowronski woke up on Dec. 31, 2019, she began her day the way she always does: scouring the internet to see if any new respiratory viruses had flared up overnight. Dr. Skowronski is the lead epidemiologist for influenza and emerging respiratory pathogens at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). It’s her job to sound the alarm on threats such as COVID-19 as early as possible. On that morning, that’s exactly what she did, before almost anyone else in Canada.
Multiple websites, including two of Dr. Skowonski’s go-tos – ProMED and FluTrackers.com – were reporting that a strange pneumonia in Wuhan, China, had sickened 27 people. Respiratory virus outbreaks aren’t uncommon in the infectious-disease world, especially during flu season, but something about the news made her uneasy. “You have a gut feeling,” she said. “SARS arose in a very similar fashion.”
more..
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...vernments-and/