Experts testify Ottawa had dismantled its global alert system, didn’t take COVID-19 threat seriously enough initially and failed to learn from other countries’ experience
Source: Pandemic errors made Canadian COVID-19 outbreak far worse than it needed to be, committee told
“The Globe obtained 10 years of internal Public Health Agency data that showed GPHIN’s internationally respected alert system was silenced on May 24, 2019, less than eight months before the COVID-19 began spreading around the world.”
How fucking stupid are we. We sorta learned a lesson with SARs, setup monitoring to detect next threats, then lost focus 8 months before COVID-19 hit.
