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Harvey Schipper

Harvey Schipper is a professor of medicine and adjunct professor of law at the University of Toronto.

Onto the next pandemic

TORONTO—As we emerge from our first encounter with COVID-19, we are beginning to take stock of where we stand and what we have learned.

Opinion | BY HARVEY SCHIPPER | September 14, 2020

Canada's deputy medical health officer Howard Njoo, Canada's chief medical officer Theresa Tam, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, Health Minister Patty Hajdu, and Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured Jan. 26, 2020, in the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, less than a month before the WHO declared the COVID-19 virus a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Our fair performance comes in spite of the fact that we appear to have starved a world-leading epidemic early warning unit, our Global Pubic Health Intelligence Network, born out of SARS, just in time to miss the early signs of COVID, writes Harvey Schipper.

Onto the next pandemic

Opinion | BY HARVEY SCHIPPER | September 14, 2020

TORONTO—As we emerge from our first encounter with COVID-19, we are beginning to take stock of where we stand and what we have learned.

Onto the next pandemic

Opinion | BY HARVEY SCHIPPER | September 14, 2020

TORONTO—As we emerge from our first encounter with COVID-19, we are beginning to take stock of where we stand and what we have learned.

Canada's deputy medical health officer Howard Njoo, Canada's chief medical officer Theresa Tam, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, Health Minister Patty Hajdu, and Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured Jan. 26, 2020, in the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, less than a month before the WHO declared the COVID-19 virus a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Our fair performance comes in spite of the fact that we appear to have starved a world-leading epidemic early warning unit, our Global Pubic Health Intelligence Network, born out of SARS, just in time to miss the early signs of COVID, writes Harvey Schipper.