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GLOBE & MAIL: Canada will have to answer for Covid-19 failures
Questions will arise about preparation, preventable deaths and testing and contact tracing
When the Covid-19 pandemic is finally over — and that day is not far off — questions about Canada’s failures will remain. There will be questions about the lack of preparation, the thousands of preventable long-term care deaths in the spring, and the failure to ramp up testing and contact tracing in the summer. There will be questions about physical-distancing measures being lifted too soon, reimposed too late or applied haphazardly.
Canada got a lot wrong over the past nine months, and depending on what happens in the months ahead there could be more unpleasant questions to come: did Ottawa do enough to get to the head of the vaccine line? Will it successfully organise the coming inoculation campaign? However, the government’s fiscal response to the pandemic has so far been one of the few places where a look in the rear-view mirror shouldn’t leave Canadians wincing with regret...
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