April 18, 2021 - The Globe and Mail
Ontario lowers age for AstraZeneca, revises some COVID-19 lockdown measures amid public outrage
Dr. Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the NIA, a physician and the Assistant Scientific Director of the table’s secretariat, said he was dumbfounded by the government’s rejection of science and common sense.
Dr. Stall said paid sick leave, which has been a top recommendation for months, seems to have become a political hot-button, but it need not be. “This is not about politics anymore,” Dr. Stall said. “If you walk inside a hospital or an intensive-care unit, or you’re a patient or a front-line worker, you know things are definitely not normal right now. It’s not just the number of sick and dying patients in our hospitals, it’s all the collateral damage going on within our health care system.”