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Fix Our Failed Health System Instead of Protecting It With Lockdowns

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Fix Our Failed Health System Instead of Protecting It With Lockdowns
Construction workers set up a make-shift hospital at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on March 11, 2021. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
Shawn Whatley, MD
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New variants of SARS-CoV-2 hit England last fall. Over 70 percent of those infected in England’s second wave tested positive for the more-lethal B.1.1.7 variant. As the National Health Service struggled, the government responded with stay-at-home orders, school closures, and strict non-pharmacologic interventions.

Shawn Whatley, MD
Shawn Whatley, MD
Author
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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