Sims: COVID's record-setting one-day death toll, and our collective shrug
It seems to me we’ve reached a weird and unfamiliar place in the pandemic journey.
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It seems to me we’ve reached a weird and unfamiliar place in the pandemic journey.
It seems to me we’ve reached a weird and unfamiliar place in the pandemic journey.
It seems to me we’ve reached a weird and unfamiliar place in the pandemic journey.
With COVID-19 cases still climbing, governments and public health officials around the world are considering new tools – from taxing the unvaccinated to broadening vaccine mandates – in order to stave off the worst outcomes. Maxwell Smith, a bioethicist and assistant professor at Western University in London, Ont., joins Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss the ethical decisions that must be made at this point in the pandemic, following the news of Quebec's "vax tax" and the United States Supreme Court weighing in on mandates south of the border.
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