B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry went from being an advocate of aggressive lockdowns to now leading the charge to have COVID-19 treated more like the flu.
There is nevertheless a growing chorus of politicians and health experts now saying that it's time for Canada to officially abandon extraordinary COVID-19 measures and "Learn to live with" the virus.
Eileen de Villa, medical officer of health for the City of Toronto, similarly said last Friday that residents should gird themselves for a future in which COVID-19 is managed like influenza.
At a public health level, the push to declare COVID-19 an endemic disease has been most apparent in British Columbia.
On Jan 24., even as COVID-19 hospitalization peaked across Saskatchewan, Premier Scott Moe said his government would not be meeting the surge with new restrictions.
Last week, Denmark announced that COVID-19 no longer posed an extraordinary threat to society , and that officials would be lifting all pandemic measures effective Jan. 31.
Spain, Ireland, the U.K., France and Germany, among others, have similarly seen their public health establishments signal a shift into the "Endemic" phase of COVID-19.
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Health officials are hinting at ending COVID restrictions
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