The NACI problem and how to fix it
The volunteer panel is dispensing crucial vaccine advice meant to keep Canadians safe and healthy. But NACI desperately needs to do better on the national stage.
May 17, 2021 People wearing face masks line up to enter a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Toronto on May 5, 2021. (Zou Zheng/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)
Monika Naus once spent an entire summer vacation reading through a final draft of the Canadian Immunization Guide. Back then, Naus was chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), a panel of doctors and scientists that offers recommendations on vaccine usage to a constellation of health-care providers across Canada. Naus’s workload could be daunting, in part because the committee had little administrative support. Still, she volunteered her time for more than a decade and chaired NACI from 2003 to 2007.
TORONTO Premier Doug Ford s government said Tuesday it was considering a paid sick-leave program for essential workers amid warnings from its own science advisers that hospitals were buckling under the weight of COVID-19.
Public health experts and labour groups have been saying for months that COVID-19 is spreading in workplaces, with essential workers bearing the brunt of the third wave of the pandemic.
In a scathing statement, the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table said Tuesday the province is now facing the most challenging health crisis of our time. Our hospitals are buckling. Younger people are getting sicker. The disease is ripping through whole families, the group said, calling for stronger measures to control the pandemic.
COVID-19 hot spot list left off 30 per cent of recommendations: advisory table
Members of Ontario s COVID-19 science advisory table say the provincial government only included about 70 per cent of neighbourhoods it recommended be designated hot spots.
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