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By Shawn Whatley
“Call for help.” This is one of the first rules in every advanced life-saving course. When you see someone collapse, rush over to assess and call for help. Raise the alarm. Let people know.
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Doctors and nurses do this all the time in Canadian hospitals across Canada. It would be professional misconduct to do otherwise.
What if someone collapses due to “public health orders or recommendations”? Should physicians speak up?
COVID-19 strips away smugness
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum receives a COVID-19 vaccination at a drive-through clinic in March. The state has become one of the U.S. leaders in vaccination delivery, with one-third of the population having received at least one vaccine dose.
When it comes to health care, Canadians only seem to care about one thing: are we better than the United States?
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When it comes to health care, Canadians only seem to care about one thing: are we better than the United States?
As long as we beat the U.S., we remain smug about our performance, although this attitude can be hard to square with the tens of thousands of Canadians who get quick access to top-level care in the U.S. each year, or the snowbirds vaccinated for COVID-19 weeks or months ahead of their stay-at-home peers.
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There is such a thing as a COVID Misery Index, developed by the brains at the non-partisan Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), a think-tank that does the hard slog for those of us with lesser IQs.
Its latest index update, though, should surprise no one. The MLI has determined that “slow vaccinations have led to Canada’s excess death rate surging past the United States.”
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Not only that, but Canada also remains in 11th place overall on the COVID Misery Index and continues to have the worst showing of all countries measured in terms of response to the pandemic.
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