We just released our livecast with Dr. Chagla, Chakrabarti and Baral and I just really wanted to express how exciting and how amazing that interview was.
One of the take-homes that I took away when it comes to how we approach our next pandemic. And you've heard me say this before, but it really needs to be about the data, who are the hardest-hit communities? And how do we make sure their needs are being met? I have a soft spot, obviously, in terms of the racialized communities we saw them being hardest hit with COVID infections with admissions and death. Our restrictions when we look at who's being harmed, most impacted, like who's the essential workers living in multigenerational homes, that inability to, to stay home, to have no isolation centers, the lack of paid leave, these were impacting our communities.
When it came to the data, we know whose hardest hit, let's bring our interventions there. Let's bring vaccines at the door. This was a key message that I took away from that live cast and we called it the last dance and I really feel like it is the last dance we're in the phase of the pandemic now like we're in the endemic phase. And this is encouraging. I think our policies need to reflect that. But we need to once again learn from this pandemic so we could do a better job and future pandemics.
Thank you
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