Lockdowns Are ‘Not Supported by Strong Science’: Ontario’s Former Chief Medical Officer
Ontario’s former chief medical officer criticized the province’s lockdown measures in an open letter sent to Premier Doug Ford on Monday.
“Our well-intentioned but misguided efforts to control Covid are only compounding the tragedy,” Dr. Richard Schabas wrote. “We need to change course.”
Schabas served as Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health from 1987 to 1997 and was Chief of Staff at York Central Hospital during the outbreak of SARS in 2003.
“Lockdown was never part of our planned pandemic response nor is it supported by strong science,” Schabas wrote. “Reasonable estimates of the infection fatality rate from Covid have been declining as we learn more,” he continued. “Models that predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid in Canada were badly wrong because they used incorrect, exaggerated inputs.”
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Dr. Richard Schabas, a retired physician that served as Ontario s Chief Medical Officer of Health for a decade, has publicly come out in support of Toronto MPP Roman Baber, who was famously removed from Caucus days ago for posting a statement opposing provincial lockdown restrictions.
Schabas, who says he worked on the front lines of the SARS outbreak, published an open letter to Premier Doug Ford on Monday in response to Ford deeming Baber s stance irresponsible and calling the data he shared misinformation.
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