Ontario can't let public health preparedness fall by the wayside again once COVID-19 fades from memory because the arrival of the next pandemic is not a question of if, but when, the chief medical officer of health said in his annual report.
Dr. Kieran Moore released the report Tuesday, the first one from that office since the pandemic hit, and in it he stressed the need for Ontario to maintain its investment in public health preparedness, including in workforce, testing, surveillance and addressing socioeconomic inequities.
People may not want to hear about another pandemic right now, Moore acknowledged, but it is important in the long term. Moore said he plans to publish a separate annual report, starting in about October, on the state of the province's pandemic preparedness. "Public health agencies had to revert to cumbersome, time-consuming manual processes for case and contact investigations and vaccinations, and mpox case and vaccination data cannot be easily linked," the report said.
"But it's progressing well for COVID. We'd like it to be able to be enacted for all the other major pathogens like measles or polio or mpox and have a really up-to-date electronic suite of tools to enable public health to respond to any infectious disease threat." COVID-19 test requisitions were also being completed by hand, leading in some cases to delayed or missing results, the report said.
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