Dr. David Walker knows sweeping inquiries into what went wrong in Ontario and Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic are “inevitable.”
He believes now may be time to start that work, as Omicron recedes, restrictions lift and the pandemic hit the two-year mark on March 11, as declared by the World Health Organization.
“You don’t want to put it off forever,” said Walker, a professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., who chaired Ontario’s expert panel on SARS and Infectious Disease Control.
“Despite its tragedies, a pandemic like this does give us a look at the structure of how we provide this public service that is health-care delivery and reminds us … there are
