Dr. Kieran Moore released a report Tuesday that stresses the need for Ontario to maintain its investment in public health preparedness
Ontario can’t let public health preparedness fall by the wayside again once COVID-19 fades from memory because the arrival of the next pandemic is not a question of if, but when, the chief medical officer of health said in his annual report.
“Memories fade, life goes on, and societies become complacent about a theoretical future threat. But we no longer live in a time when future disease threats are theoretical. The emergence of new pathogens, and the resurgence of old ones mean we now live in a time when we must be constantly vigilant.”
“Then H1N1 in 2009, the same happened. I don’t want to see any decrease in our level of preparedness. I want us to maintain the gains that we’ve achieved as a province, so that we can try to mitigate the unintended and negative consequences of any infectious disease threat or pandemic.” During the pandemic, some progress was made to integrate vaccination and case and contact management data, but the resulting system – COVAX – can only be used for COVID-19, the report said. It couldn’t be adapted for mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, when it emerged last year.
“The next piece is having the electronic data from laboratory testing feed into our case and contact management system and that is progressing well,” he said. “As a result, public health agencies had to use labour-intensive manual processes to assess the number of individuals with COVID-19 who had been hospitalized, were in the intensive care unit, or had died due to COVID-19.”
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