Public health experts excoriate Canada Covid response and call for inquiry

Country failed to collect and share data, masking issues and inequalities, according to editorial in British Medical Journal

Prominent public health experts have called on Canada to launch an inquiry into its Covid response, arguing that the country's failure to collect and share data masked issues and inequalities that - if properly addressed early on - could have saved lives.

The call to action came alongside a scathing editorial in the British Medical Journal, titled The world expected more of Canada", which argues that Canada's overall impression of adequacy" conceals important inequalities.