rushing to defend Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David Williams, amid growing calls for the good doctor to be fired or resign.Some critics claim that Williams has been too slow to react to the ever-changing information about COVID-19, but others feel that his pronouncements about how Ontario should respond to the virus are too heavily influenced by politics and not science.Dr.
Williams’ guidance on the province’s back-to-school plan seems to be the most contentious issue.Like so many other health care professionals, Dr.
Williams has preached about social distancing and avoiding large gatherings as the best way to prohibit the spread of the virus.Yet, he endorses the government plan to re-open schools with large class sizes.
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