... it must be a quack:
An expert who worked on the Auditor-General’s report that criticized Canada’s lack of preparation for COVID-19 says the government’s risk assessments were “an utter failure” and cannot be defended.
Wesley Wark, an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa who analyzed the risk assessments during the onset of the outbreak, said Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam’s remarks last week that sought to justify those assessments are “defending the indefensible.”
At a news conference on Friday, Dr. Tam asserted that Public Health’s determination early last year that COVID-19 posed only a low risk to Canada was accurate in that moment, even though the Auditor-General found the methodology used to reach that conclusion was flawed.
“It was not wrong,” Dr. Tam said. “The domestic risk at that moment in time for the cases in Canada was relatively low.”
However, Mr. Wark, who specializes in security and intelligence, said the comments from Dr. Tam are misleading because they don’t encapsulate how off-target Ottawa’s risk assessments were, according to the evidence.
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Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam and deputy chief public health officer Dr. Howard Njoo held a press conference to reveal the most recent COVID-19 modelling, with Canada's top docs relaying grim news for those ready to move on from the pandemic.
(Sidebar: because we all know how spot-on her models are.)
Show one where Theresa Tam was ever right.
I'll wait.
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