When it comes to the media, what’s irresponsible and what’s responsible, in terms of reporting?
I’m hoping before the pandemic that we have a discussion in Canada about media response and government messaging. What we saw during SARS, in general, the media were incredibly helpful. Partly because, media are organizations that are trained to move large amounts of information in very effective summary forms and get them to lots of people. I think the danger Americans worry about more than Canadians is that in order to make a good story, the media will attempt to show kind of conflicting opinions and conflicting evidence. I am frankly not worried about that in Canada. We did not see that at all during SARS. It seems to me the media understands like everybody else that what we’re out there to do is to get the right information to the largest number of people ^TOP I get sick, and I come to the hospital, isn’t that making the hospital a really dangerous place to be during a pandemic? The risk of being infected during a pandemic is being alive. It doesn’t seem to matter a where you are.
