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In mid-January Brooks Fallis, MD, was relieved of his duties as interim medical director of critical care at William Osler Health System in Canada s Ontario province. Fallis had publicly criticized the provincial government s response to the pandemic, most recently to the new coronavirus variants.
Fallis said he was stripped of his directorship because the government pressured Osler administrators and because he did not warn them about all his media appearances. Officials with Osler and the provincial government, however, denied his claims.
Then on Friday, Ontario issued a six-point plan to address the variants, echoing some of Fallis s points.
Melissa Couto Zuber January 26, 2021 - 9:00 AM
Initial doses of a COVID-19 vaccine are set to roll into the country in the next few weeks, and Canadians will be wondering where they stand in the inoculation line.
Which segment of the population will get the first doses, once Canada approves them for use, and how long will it take before most of us are inoculated and we can reach that point of herd immunity?
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) has already recommended early doses be given to: residents and staff of long-term care homes; adults 70 years or older (starting with those 80 and over); front-line health-care workers; and adults in Indigenous communities â but there s still some debate among experts on whether that s the best strategy for a vaccine rollout.
Additional cases of a more transmissible version of the COVID-19 virus have been popping up around Canada recently, and experts are concerned about what tha