As the pandemic began, the public-health body advising the Quebec government had to wrestle with a flood of scientific papers, outdated software, delays in creating a testing program and a misguided expectation that hospitals would be hit before elder-care homes, a coroner’s inquest heard Wednesday.
However, many pivotal questions about the role of INSPQ will not be answered until two higher-ranking physicians testify later – chief executive Nicole Damestoy, who is to appear on the witness stand next week, and medical adviser Jasmin Villeneuve, scheduled for Nov. 29. The institute presented its forecasts to the health department on March 9, 2020. “In the most catastrophic scenarios it would completely knock over the short-term care system,” Dr. Sauvé testified.
She mentioned other hurdles, such as computer systems that needed to be updated, unreliable reporting of COVID-19 deaths and delays in testing. A test procedure was ready on Jan. 23, but initially could handle only 50 samples a day. Until March 11, the results had to be verified by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. “We had a hard time getting data in real time.”
“It’s a bit easy in hindsight to say there was a paper published in some journal in some context. There were thousands of papers being produced,” Dr. Sauvé said. Nursing-home staffers were initially told they couldn’t wear masks unless they were in proximity to a resident who showed symptoms. It was only on April 3, 2020, that the directive was changed to require masks within two metres of a resident, even without symptoms.
Recent data from the U.K. Office of National Statistics reveals people who have been double jabbed against COVID-19 are dying from all causes at a rate six times higher than the unvaccinated
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