Death by Covid

Over half a million Canadians have now been infected with the coronavirus with 142.000 deaths before Christmas 2020. And about 2 million death worldwide.Among them my uncle , my cousin, my best friend .and left my brother with complication.This article is for their memories.

The phase III trial of AZD1222, the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will continue in Brazil, following a review into the death of a volunteer.

The Brazilian health authority disclosed the death on Wednesday, on one of the volunteer had received the vaccine, a nurse in USA fell severely ill after the vaccine but she didn’t die.

Many of us want Dr Tam to resign . Dont understand me wrong , Dr. Tam Completed a medical degree from the University of Nottingham, a pediatric residency at the University of Alberta and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of British Columbia. She’s also published over 55 peer-reviewed journal publications on public health. She should be in the field of pediatrics infectious disease and pediatric infection control area and not the Canadian public health chief.

Canadians have grown increasingly frustrated by confusing and contradictory public health advice, causing some to lose faith in the system’s ability to protect them. This cannot be left unaddressed

Kenney suggested Tam was ignoring science and simply “repeating talking points” from China’s Communist government:

“This the same Dr. Tam who was telling us that we shouldn’t close our borders to countries with high levels of infection, and who, in January, was repeating talking points out of the (People’s Republic of China) about no evidence of human-to-human transmission.”

What kind of a public servant dodges valid questions from elected officials about an unprecedented national crisis? A public servant who has lost their way and needs to promptly answer them, resign or be fired.

Many other doctors are better than Tam.

Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, takes questions from selected media at press conferences most days but since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic after 3 months of silence by China communist party, then Dr Tam failed to appear before the Canadian parliamentary health committee, in timely manner.

This committee has been crucial to Canada’s effort to stop the virus. They also advise about travel, which went on for few months before the liberal government stopped the travel, after bringing thousands of Chinese back to Canada.

But twice, on March 11 and March 31- 2020, Dr Tam has said she’s going to show at the committee but then cancelled at the last minute, say Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux of Edmonton and NDP MP Don Davies of Vancouver. She is incompetent. Remember don’t wear msk, then yes you should wear mask and all that stupid mistakes that even a child knows that we should wear it.

She appears to be dodging the committee, Davies says, noting that two late cancellations don’t seem like a coincidence. “I don’t think she should be too busy to come to health committee and answer questions, which is basically the only accountability mechanism in the country.” Of course later she did after the pressure.

Tam did find time recently for a lengthy chat with the CBC’s Rosie Barton, where she answered a series of soft-hitting questions.

On the issue of Canada’s slow move to border closure and quarantines, which only happened two months into the crisis, Tam said: “Could we have done more at the time? You can retrospectively say yes, absolutely, you could screen more, or you could change your stance. But at the time we had very, very few cases globally and in Canada.” What a rubbish talk.

The problem with Tam’s answer that Numerous world health officials understood in late January 2020 — not retrospectively — that strict measures were needed. The Chinese, for example, were so alarmed they completely shut down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, on Jan. 23. By Jan. 26, Taiwan medical officials had closed and quarantined all travel from China. China did have the virus around early December 2019, but they didn’t say much.

To make sound policy decisions, MPs like Davies and Jeneroux needed to hear all useful options from medical experts. But on Jan. 29 when Tam was directly asked at health committee about how other countries were handling travel bans, she failed to mention Taiwan’s comprehensive quarantine. Instead she spoke out against bans and mandatory quarantines because: a) they would break Canada’s treaty with the WHO, b) were racist and would stigmatized groups from infected areas, c) would alienate China and might stop that country from cooperating with the WHO and d) weren’t backed by science.

Jeneroux wishes she had provided information on Taiwan. “I still wonder what the situation might have been today if it was treated with that sense of urgency right from the get-go.” Dr Tam and the liberal party played politics, while thousands are dying.

During the early months of the crises, the Trudeau government hid behind the WHO’s clout and reputation, doing whatever the WHO recommended on COVID-19, including pooh-poohing the public’s use of face masks. “They not only were advising against masks, but Dr. Tam used the WHO to testify at Canada committee that she felt the use of masks might be harmful,” Davies says. “I think that was also questionable.”?

When the government reversed positions on masks in early April, Davies wasn’t satisfied with Tam’s position that she did so based on new evidence, not when there are abundant evidence dating back years on how masks protect against droplet infection. “It seemed to me she was trying to cover her error,” he says.

I think all Canadians want her to be more alert, gain more knowledge, and use sound judgment that lined with science and not what she think and he think, and W.H.O said that

The president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was resigned stepping from her job , only 18 months into the job, leaving the federal health agency tasked with coordinating the country's COVID-19 response without a seasoned leader. Tina Namiesniowski said she would be stepping aside immediately to make way for a new president

In a letter to staff, Namie?niowski, a long-serving bureaucrat, said she needs to "take a break" and "step aside so someone else can step up" to lead the agency as caseloads spike and testing times creep up in some parts of the country. She knew her weakness and left on time at the start of the crisis.

"You really need someone who will have the energy and the stamina to take the agency and our response to the next level," she said in internal correspondence announcing her departure, which was later released by PHAC. This is not the end of it, we yet to hit by 3rd and 4th waves and then the virus will mutate to different strain, and here we go all over again with new vaccine , new research and trials and billions to spend. While people losing their jobs , stressed out, depressed, some committed suicide, others filed for divorce and others file for bankruptcies.

I think most Canadian want the same for Dr Tam to resign and let someone else with sound judgment, great public health experience , research background in statistics , health pandemic strategies and community disease to lead our country to the end of the covid tunnel.

Steve Ramsey, PhD- Public Health. MSc Medical Ultrasound.

Okotoks, Alberta .