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These decisions are difficult, as McNamara wrote. And the magnitude of the responsibility? People’s lives are at stake.
Yet this is public health’s job, and instead of being in front, it seems to largely react.
There have been unsettling questions from the beginning, when top public health doctor Wajid Ahmed declared, as the pandemic bore down, “There is nothing that people should be worrying about.”
That was followed by a heated dispute with Windsor Regional Hospital CEO David Musyj — one of three people, along with Ahmed, named to lead the pandemic response here — over testing in long-term care homes, where the pandemic had reached a crisis. The dispute led to confusion over who was being tested, when they were being tested and who was doing the testing.
