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Health professionals dissatisfied with B.C.'s COVID-19 briefings to start hosting their own
Protect Our Province B.C. will hold its first briefing Oct. 20 at 12 p.m. PT
CBC News · Posted: Oct 19, 2021 3:54 PM PT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago
A new organization — Protect Our Province B.C. — is going to start hosting its own regular COVID-19 briefings because of what its members say is a "worrisome lack of science-informed pandemic response" in British Columbia.
The group of self-described independent health professionals, scientists and policy analysts will stream their first live briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 12 p.m. PT. The first briefing will bring together a panel to review the science on aerosol (airborne) transmission and the implications for health care, school, and workplace settings.
Family and palliative physician Amy Tan will facilitate the panel. She says B.C. health officials are not doing a transparent or thorough enough job relaying to the general public how big a role aerosol transmission plays in spreading COVID-19.
"It actually spreads like second-hand smoke," said Tan, speaking Monday on CBC's On The Coast.
She said government health officials have been reluctant to acknowledge that the virus can be carried in droplets much further than the "magical two metre distance" so often suggested. If the infected person is carrying enough viral load, Tan says, they can make even a fully-vaccinated person sick...
Health professionals dissatisfied with B.C.'s COVID-19 briefings to start hosting their own
Protect Our Province B.C. will hold its first briefing Oct. 20 at 12 p.m. PT
CBC News · Posted: Oct 19, 2021 3:54 PM PT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago
A new organization — Protect Our Province B.C. — is going to start hosting its own regular COVID-19 briefings because of what its members say is a "worrisome lack of science-informed pandemic response" in British Columbia.
The group of self-described independent health professionals, scientists and policy analysts will stream their first live briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 12 p.m. PT. The first briefing will bring together a panel to review the science on aerosol (airborne) transmission and the implications for health care, school, and workplace settings.
Family and palliative physician Amy Tan will facilitate the panel. She says B.C. health officials are not doing a transparent or thorough enough job relaying to the general public how big a role aerosol transmission plays in spreading COVID-19.
"It actually spreads like second-hand smoke," said Tan, speaking Monday on CBC's On The Coast.
She said government health officials have been reluctant to acknowledge that the virus can be carried in droplets much further than the "magical two metre distance" so often suggested. If the infected person is carrying enough viral load, Tan says, they can make even a fully-vaccinated person sick...