Canada’s response to the initial 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison with peer countries

20.500.12592/rp64j2

Canada’s response to the initial 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison with peer countries

13 Jul 2022

25, 2020.1 At the time, Key points few anticipated the intensity and duration of the COVID-19 pan- • Compared with the other Group of 10 (G10) countries, Canada demic, which has presented health systems and governments performed better than most in terms of percentage of the globally with challenges not encountered in a century. [...] Through population receiving 2 doses of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, and on the first 2 years of the pandemic, the Canadian public bore the measures assessing the direct effect of the pandemic: number of people infected, number who died from COVID-19 and total substantial burden of a range of public health measures, while excess deaths. [...] In our recalculation of Figures 1–3 for the European Union and the OECD countries (as per the sensitivity analysis noted Economic metrics above; see Appendix 1, Supplement Figures 8–10), the relative Canada and the US both had notable surges in unemployment position of Canada, and interpretation of its performance in rela- coinciding with the first wave of the pandemic, respectively peak- tion to. [...] In the bar graphs, we first calculated the Group of 10 (G10) 10th and 90th percentiles (37.0 and 76.8, respectively) of Stringency Index based on all available daily reports of Stringency Index from all 11 countries included in the analysis since the start of the pandemic to Feb. [...] received grants (outside the current article) to study COVID-19 from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, Canadian Frailty Network, Contributors: Fahad Razak, David Naylor and Arthur Slutsky conceived the University of Toronto (including the Department of Medicine, and designed the study.
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