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hospitalist physician. amateur 📷. toronto sports. coffee in all forms. 🇨🇦🇹🇹 Interested in innovation in health(care).

Jul 11, 2020, 6 tweets

While Canada continues to import cases via the dozens of international arrivals daily, perhaps if we’re lucky by October the CBSA will catch onto the whole asymptomatic/presymptomatic thing.

Take the UP express, subway then 3 buses, what could go wrong?

The CBSA website and actions in relation to travellers arriving from out of Canada by air is a joke compared to what can be found in New Zealand.

Canada: “Please answer these honestly then be on your way”

NZ: mandatory direct managed isolation/quarantine AND COVID test 4 all.

health.govt.nz/our-work/disea…

The transparency and data release is foreign to what we could expect here.

Yes, NZ is a small country. It’s also done this better than pretty much any other country in the world.

@Travisdhanraj here’s something to ask about at those pressers!

We’re going to waste the sacrifices made by everyone, including the disastrous economic fallout and $340B deficit, and have more deaths if @JustinTrudeau and @HonAhmedHussen do not protect our borders with greater diligence and strengthen testing requirements for arrivals.

@JennyKwanBC and @KentThornhillMP should be pressing for the public reporting of int’l arrival data including numbers, category (cit/pr vs the “immediate family” allowance), COVID+ cases and data on CBSA isolation auditing for ex. # arrivals contacted.

Too much has been lost.

It’s worth noting New Zealand’s “immediate family” definition is kids and partners.

@liberal_party must be cognizant of health resource implications of allowing older parents of CIT/PR entry during a pandemic disproportionately affecting that precise age group esp in 2nd wave

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