Three Experts on How Well Canada Has Fought COVID 19 and How We Could Do Better

A health worker inspects vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as they are thawed in a lab at the UZ Leuven hospital in Leuven, Belgium, on Dec. 27, 2020. The Canadian Press/Frederic Sierakowski, Pool via AP

OTTAWA—As new cases of COVID-19 surge across Canada, the federal government and the provinces have been imposing stricter measures to try to limit the illness’s spread.

The Canadian Press interviewed three leading Canadian experts in disease control and epidemiology, asking their thoughts on Canada’s handling of the pandemic, the new restrictions on activities—and what else can be done. Here’s what they had to say.

John Brownstein, Montreal-born Harvard University epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital:

Having a national testing strategy in Canada that uses rapid tests people could do at home would limit the spread of the virus, Brownstein says.