307 - An Update on COVID-19 in Canada with The Dose's Dr. Brian Goldman
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Canada is experiencing a serious wave of COVID infections with the majority from variants of concern like B.1.1.7. British Columbia currently has one of the highest rates of P.1 outside of Brazil itself where the variant was first discovered. Dr. Brian Goldman, the host of two CBC podcasts and a clinician at Sinai Health System in Toronto, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the factors that contributed to Canada's COVID crisis, including logistical issues with distributing vaccines.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.8 | at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.5 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Today, I speak to Dr. Brian Goldman, a staff emergency physician at the Sinai Health System in |
| 0:54.0 | Toronto. |
| 0:55.3 | Dr. Goldman is the host of two podcasts produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. |
| 1:01.0 | We speak about the very serious wave of COVID infections now hitting Canada. |
| 1:06.5 | Let's listen. |
| 1:08.4 | Dr. Goldman, thank you so much for coming back to public health on call. |
| 1:11.6 | What's the situation right now with the coronavirus pandemic in Canada? |
| 1:16.6 | Well, Josh, pleasure to be with you once again. |
| 1:20.6 | I wish the news were better in Canada. |
| 1:22.6 | I think right now we're really at a crisis point in the third wave of COVID-19. |
| 1:30.3 | We have some of the highest rates of new infections in many parts of Canada, |
| 1:37.9 | Ontario, particularly Alberta and British Columbia, and to a lesser extent, Quebec. |
| 1:43.8 | In fact, in Ontario right now, we're seeing |
| 1:47.0 | 4,400 cases per day of COVID-19. The vast majority of them are variants of concern. So B117, the |
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