How the COVID-19 pandemic is being managed in British Columbia, Canada, with Dr Bonnie Henry
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In episode 17 of our COVID19 Road to a vaccine series, our host, Associate Professor Nigel Crawford, speaks to Dr Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer (PHO) for the Province...
show more•Bonnie’s current role leading BC’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
•What she learnt from the 2003 SARS outbreak and how this experience and knowledge can be applied to the current pandemic such as the importance of contact tracing, managing outbreaks and the importance of communicating with the public
•The role COVID-19 vaccines will play in Canada and challenges that will need to be faced such as logistics, ensuring adequate safety profiles, determining priority groups to be immunised first and protecting indigenous communities
•The critical importance of monitoring for adverse events following immunisation
Links:
The New York Times: The top doctor who aced the coronavirus test
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/world/canada/bonnie-henry-british-columbia-coronavirus.html
BC Centre for Disease Control: BC COVID-19 data
http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/data
Government of Canada: Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Statement on Preliminary Guidance from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) on Key Populations for Early COVID-19 Vaccination
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2020/11/cpho-statement-on-nacis-preliminary-guidance-on-key-populations-for-early-covid-19-vaccination.html
Government of Canada: Government of Canada signs new agreements to secure additional vaccine candidate and treatment for COVID-19
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/news/2020/09/government-of-canada-signs-new-agreements-to-secure-additional-vaccine-candidate-and-treatment-for-covid-19.html
BC Children's Hospital: Manish Sadarangani
https://www.bcchr.ca/msadarangani
Dalhousie University Department of Pediatrics: Karina Top
https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/department-sites/pediatrics/our-people/our-faculty/karina-top.html
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