{"id":10461,"date":"2021-05-08T18:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T22:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2021-05-08T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T22:40:16","slug":"pandemic-errors-made-canadian-covid-19-outbreak-far-worse-than-it-needed-to-be-committee-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=10461","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic errors made Canadian COVID-19 outbreak far worse than it needed to be, committee told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts testify Ottawa had dismantled its global alert system, didn\u2019t take COVID-19 threat seriously enough initially and failed to learn from other countries\u2019 experience<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-pandemic-errors-made-canadian-covid-19-outbreak-far-worse-than-it\/\">Pandemic errors made Canadian COVID-19 outbreak far worse than it needed to be, committee told<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;The Globe obtained 10 years of internal Public Health Agency data that showed GPHIN\u2019s internationally respected alert system was <strong><em>silenced on May 24, 2019, less than eight months before the COVID-19 began spreading<\/em><\/strong> around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How fucking stupid are we.\u00a0 We sorta learned a lesson with SARs, setup monitoring to detect next threats, then lost focus 8 months before COVID-19 hit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts testify Ottawa had dismantled its global alert system, didn\u2019t take COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,169,576,140],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-jfc","tag-paul","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}