Doug Ford inherited one of the industrialized world’s least capable health-care systems. A bad hand, he couldn’t have played any worse.
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Ford’s pandemic performance has kyboshed another majority government
Don’t believe the polls showing another conservative victory in Ontario.
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How Democrats and Republicans can come together on vaccines
Regulating vaccines under the same liability regime as all other pharmaceuticals, and acknowledging problems as well as benefits associated with them, will likely lead to safer vaccines and a better informed public.
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The biggest COVID-19 vaccine skeptics? Frontline health care workers
Why are America’s Tier 1A workers the most likely to refuse vaccination? Gallup, and numerous other surveys and reports, produce unexpected results.
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Ontario needs the Swedish model
When Ontario government models project how many lives lockdowns can save, they don’t count how many lives those lockdowns take, let alone the misery and the economic costs they inflict.
Don’t count on a coronavirus vaccine any time soon
It would be foolhardy to base public policy decisions on the unrealistic prospect of a quick-fix vaccine.
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The lockdown should be for the old and vulnerable, no one else
Such an approach would inflect relatively little harm to the economy or to the financial security so important to our sense of well-being.
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Britain’s novel approach to coronavirus: Will herd immunity work?
The debate being played out in Britain is unique; virologists in no other country, certainly not Canada, have brought this issue out in the open.
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Medical research is too important to leave to the politicians
The politicization of research funding is pervasive and paramount in decision-making.
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The EpiPen scandal is just a symptom of America’s unexplained allergy epidemic
Governments have vast financial interests that skew their medical research.
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