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In two recent commentaries I discussed what really are public policy issues relative to the formation and early days of the new Health Authority Boards whose membership was announced in Brunswick News just last week. Having fired two previous boards and a CEO in what some critics in the public referred to as an unceremonious manner, the process was put in place for the appointment of successor boards.
From the description of the appointees in the news, it looks like a very strong group of people with an interesting mix of business skill, some with some health care background, others with a healthy variety of backgrounds. With a person with strong clinical background as chair of Horizon and a strong successful business executive at Vitalite, and with the requirement in the legislation that the two boards collaborate, the future months and years could get really interesting.
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News reports continue to keep us up to date on the latest numbers of deaths related to Covid. The pandemic is long over so why are we still getting those reports? We did not get them when influenza was the seasonal bug that impacted so many, except for the required Public Health reports on the government website. The way in which Covid reports are portrayed seems to invoke a sense of concern as if the pandemic is still alive.
That Covid was deadly, particularly with seniors and persons living with immune compromises, is beyond dispute. It came as a surprise to North America although the virus was alive and active in China for at least 6 months prior to the declaration of the pandemic. Once China admitted that Covid was a large public health issue, then the politics of the international community and party politics in the US, and elsewhere, kicked in. Suddenly everyone was an expert on one side or another and those who dared to express views that even questioned the official public health doctrine were branded as strange, weird, extreme. |
AuthorKen McGeorge, BS,DHA,CHE is a career health care executive based in Fredericton, NB, Canada. Archives
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