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The coronavirus pandemic particularly affects seniors and could be a great opportunity to rethink the relationship our societies have with them, notes Martine Lagacé, Professor in the Department of Communication.

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Politicians should base their decisions during the COVID-19 crisis on science and medical advice over economics, according to 82% of Canadians who responded to a study by York University researchers. Professor Patrick Fafard is interviewed on CBC Radio.

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Professor Sarah Berger Richardson is interviewed on CBC Radio in a look at how COVID-19 is affecting the supply chain for meat.

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Both Canada and the U.S. share similar challenges—and pitfalls—in determining who gets care when there’s not enough to go around. And the problem is that even our best evidence-based, data-driven triage protocols still reflect and exacerbate historic and systemic inequities outside the hospital. Fulbright Visiting Scholar to CHLPE Jennifer Herbst writes in iPolitics.

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Public funds are the backbone of the underlying science that’s needed to develop the medical tools that we need and use. But today there is little indication—and no requirement—that the billions of public dollars being spent will result in a vaccine or treatment for COVID-19 that is affordable. Instead, governments appear poised to let the private market sort out the details of who gets access and at what price. Jason Nickerson writes in The Conversation.

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• South Korean court delivers latest blow to e-cigarette makers

• The Agenda: Liberty versus security in a pandemic
• What are the rights and responsibilities of healthcare providers?
• Science + policy and COVID-19 webinar video
• What's in a name?
• Government management of the pandemic
• Crisis underscores that health workers are backbone of health system

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• Canada after the curve
• How invoking the Emergency Powers Act could help Canada better track, contain COVID-19
• Privacy and personal data on zoom during COVID-19
• Pieces from other faculty
• From the vault

• Border closures may not be legal and won't stop spread
• What happens after the pandemic curve flattens?
• uOttawa lab putting 3D printers to use in crisis
• Police enforcement of social distancing?
• CHLPE members fast-track COVID-19 research
• General COVID-19 resources

• Ethics, the law and a public health emergency
• Leaving no one behind with COVID-19
• Populism and pandemics
• In the face of COVID-19, we must understand Canada's lockdown powers
• Steven Hoffman on CBC's Cross-Country Checkup
• Coronavirus, human rights, and social media
• CHLPE events postponed

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