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COVID-19: Alberta Needs Broader Reform to Tackle Surgical Backlog
While the Alberta government is taking a step in the right direction by emulating Saskatchewan and utilizing private surgical facilities to perform publicly paid surgeries and reduce its backlog, broader reform is needed.
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6700 décès en trop dans les CHSLD?
Le véritable désastre des CHSLD sera à tout jamais un exemple criant des limitations du modèle québécois en matière de santé et de soins aux personnes âgées.
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Quebec’s COVID-19 LTC Disaster: Up to 6,700 Lives Could Have Been Saved
Nearly one year ago, the Quebec government decreed a temporary end to the transfer of COVID-19 patients to CHSLDs, Quebec’s long-term care centres. To this day, Quebec’s extremely high death count among seniors in CHSLDs continues to raise eyebrows. This publication from the Montreal Economic Institute calls into question the inevitability of these deaths.
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Lessons from Florida and COVID-19: Protect the Elderly and Keep the World Turning
COVID-19: One year later, Florida offers an illuminating case study of what might have been here in Quebec and across Canada.
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Structural Weaknesses in Canada’s Health Care Surge Capacity
Our health professionals are doing their best, but Canada’s capacity problems are structural, and need structural solutions.
IEDM – COVID-19 : Nous avons besoin des pharmaciens – Miguel Ouellette
Interview (in French) with Miguel Ouellette, Director of Operations and Economist at the MEI, about the ability of pharmacists to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Broadcast on February 11, 2021, on LCN’s Québec matin.
IEDM – Les pharmaciens peuvent administrer le vaccin contre la COVID-19 – Miguel Ouellette
February 11, 2021 | 8 min. 57 sec. | Richard Martineau (QUB Radio) Interview (in French) with Miguel Ouellette, Director of Operations […]
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Vaccination: nous avons besoin des pharmaciens
De grandes bannières de pharmacie se sont portées volontaires à venir en aide au système public qui est près du gouffre.
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It’s time to get smart about fighting COVID-19
Instead of inflexible rules that dissipate limited resources, we need focus: a careful assessment of where restrictions have the most impact, and where rapid testing can be best used to fend off outbreaks.
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Prochaine phase de la bataille COVID-19: des tests de masse ciblés
Les tests et le dépistage de la COVID-19 au Canada ont jusqu’à présent été globalement médiocres.