Q&A: Why hasn’t Canada followed Nordic limits on youth vaccination?¶
Day 4 · 3:38:34 · Myriam Bohémier · Dr. Gary Davidson · Dean Allison
- 🇨🇦 Davidson cannot explain why PHAC ignores aligned European democracies’ restrictions on healthy children.
- 🙈 He cites fear of admitting error and the liability cascade that would follow.
- 🔒 Physicians remain trapped in an impossible position created from above.
Question on Canada’s refusal to adopt youth limits.
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Transcript¶
Myriam Bohémier · 3:38:34
Just a quick one.
Speaker G · 3:38:36
Your opinion, why do you think Canada, especially recommendation number 2 that you made within the report about, you know, basically limiting the vaccines going forward for younger children that are healthy, considering most of those countries listed are countries that we actually tend to be very much aligned with from a professional sort of democratic process and even health services. Why, why hasn't Canada sort of said, you know what, this makes sense going forward, at least? And again, I'm not litigating on the past, but just sort of going forward, why hasn't the Public Health Agency of Canada sort of made the same recommendation?
Dr. Gary Davidson · 3:39:22
I have ideas, but I don't really know. Yeah, yeah. Some of it's just I don't understand. I really— I don't understand why we did it in the first place and why we haven't been able to change since. I really don't understand. It's just sometimes hard to back up and I think people are afraid to admit they're wrong for fear of what it may cost them. Yeah, I think that's a big part of it, you know. And then, yeah, I think most people, most physicians are good people and really do want to look after people, but they are really put in a really, really impossible position. And yeah, so I I think it's the same all the way around. I think it's hard to back up and admit you're wrong because then also the liability comes with that.
Dr. Gary Davidson · 3:40:22
And then where does it end? There's a lot of people that didn't do well.
Dean Allison · 3:40:28
Thank you very much. And as usual, we're out of time and I, I want to ask questions, but I can't. But Dr. Hayes, I want to thank you very much for being here and, and for taking the time. It's interesting, as much as I followed a lot of the stuff stuff over the years, I was unaware that Alberta did a report. So that just tells you, you know, if you're sort of paying attention— and I say sort of paying attention— you don't know what is— what are the chances the public will ever be paying attention? Yeah, I think I was going to ask you what, which, which ones were implemented in Alberta, but I'm not going to do that. Which one of the recommendations— I think I, I think I get the answer to that as well.
Dr. Gary Davidson · 3:41:02
No, our premier has done quite a bit actually in Alberta.
Dean Allison · 3:41:05
Good.
Dr. Gary Davidson · 3:41:05
So I really appreciate that.
Dean Allison · 3:41:07
That's actually taken. Well, thank you for being here. This— I think this has been enlightening. I think certainly for most people that may not understand that there was actually a province that commissioned some type of report. Yeah, you've explained very clearly what that report looked like versus, you know, an inquiry officially versus data. All great and very helpful. So thank you very much.
Dr. Gary Davidson · 3:41:26
Thank you.
Myriam Bohémier · 3:41:27
Thanks. And, and Dr. Davidson, um, again, the travel that you did to get here, we just thank you. I know it's tough, and we so appreciate you coming in. It's just so important the only government report done needed to be part of this record. So I, I personally thank you for coming.
Dean Allison · 3:41:45
Thank you.
Myriam Bohémier · 3:41:46
You're welcome. David, um, before we go to the next witnesses' slides, can we do the Foster, uh, videos? We just, we do. I just went, I'm going to talk while you pull them up.