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Author: Lynora Saxinger, Braden Manns
Publication Date: April 27, 2024 - 09:00
Canadians deserve a transparent report into the COVID-19 pandemic
April 27, 2024
Lynora Saxinger is an infectious-diseases specialist, physician and professor of medicine at the University of Alberta. Braden Manns is a physician and professor of medicine and health economics at the University of Calgary. He was an interim vice-president for Alberta Health Services until he resigned on June 11, 2023. Dr. Manns and Dr. Saxinger were co-chairs of the Alberta Health Services COVID-19 scientific advisory group from March, 2020, to December, 2022.COVID-19 was a massive, deadly public-health emergency that hospitalized hundreds of thousands of Canadians and killed more than 59,000. The pandemic, with its public-health measures, stole life experiences from our children, caused economic hardship, and it increased social isolation, substance use and mental-health disorders. It stretched health care workers and systems to the breaking point, and left an ever-widening chasm within society.
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