It’s more than likely we won’t be prepared for the next pandemic. Again.
Somehow, Moore argues, public health must be liberated from “the ’boom and bust’ cycle of funding.” My crystal ball is notorious grouchy, but when I look into it, all I see is the half-assed status quo stretching before us like the Sahara Desert.
That doesn’t have to happen, of course. Other health-care systems deliver better routine outcomes for the same or less money. And other health-care systems survived COVID-related challenges that would probably have crippled us. Article content The minister would have to produce such a plan and, every three years, “report on the progress that has been made towards preventing pandemic risk and improving preparedness efforts in Canada.”Article content
But at least Erskine-Smith’s plan would do something. Especially if this triannual report offered basic, verifiable preparedness statistics — PPE stockpiles, hospital and ICU beds per capita, etc. — it would likely at least make the news every three years and remind Canadians that there’s no reason COVID-2029 couldn’t be an even bigger bastard than COVID-19. If the governments tabling such reports got cute or cut corners, journalists would notice. Opposition politicians would inquire.
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