Amid increasing reports of lengthy waits for COVID-19 testing and soaring case numbers involving children, the former head of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control is urging officials to increase surveillance in the province.
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“I’m glad you brought that up,” the provincial health officer said Thursday, when a reporter asked why the province did not declare a “heat health emergency” as recommended in reports posted on the government website and elsewhere.
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“The process that we have in place is based on those reports,” she said, specifically citing “a data driven-approach to setting trigger temperatures for heat health emergencies,” written by Sarah Henderson and Tom Kosatsky, doctors at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.