Who decides when the pandemic is over?
Mar 14, 2022 ·
14m 30s
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As COVID-19 restrictions are being eased across Atlantic Canada, some experts are urging caution about a complete return to a pre-pandemic lifestyle. And Nova Scotia's own Chief Medical Officer of...
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As COVID-19 restrictions are being eased across Atlantic Canada, some experts are urging caution about a complete return to a pre-pandemic lifestyle. And Nova Scotia's own Chief Medical Officer of Health has cautioned there are still people dying and the virus is still very much in our communities. So who does get to decide when a pandemic has ended? What are the lessons from the 1918 Spanish influenza? One recent article suggested it would be people and not science that will dictate the answer. That it's more about the human behaviour than how the virus is acting that will answer that question. Doctor Howard Ramos is a Sociologist at Western University in London, Ontario. The former Dalhousie Professor weighs in with his thoughts on that question.
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