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Different Regional Experiences Require Different Pandemic Responses

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Different Regional Experiences Require Different Pandemic Responses
Paramedics transfer a patient from an ambulance to the LaSalle Hospital in Montreal on April 25, 2020, at the height of the pandemic. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
Shawn Whatley, MD
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The first wave of COVID-19 hit at the peak of hospital overcrowding. Decades of trimming the meat while leaving the untouchable fat left some communities declaring a state of emergency. As we enter the second wave, here are three lessons we should have learned from COVID-19 already.

Shawn Whatley, MD
Shawn Whatley, MD
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Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing,” and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a past president of the Ontario Medical Association.
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