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Canada�s top doctor Theresa Tam leaving position when term ends June 20
By The Canadian Press
Published: June 13, 2025 at 12:57PM EDT
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam provides an update on public >health concerns related to wildfires during a press conference in Ottawa
on June 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
TORONTO � As Dr. Theresa Tam prepares to leave her position next week, >Canada�s top doctor says it�s more important than ever for Canada to
stand up for science and combat disinformation.
She�s held the role of chief public health officer for eight years, but >became a household name in the last five years as she led the country�s >public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her term ends June 20 and she doesn�t have another job lined up, Tam
said in a wide-ranging interview Friday that touched on her desire to be >remembered for more than COVID, her passion for health equity and the
musical side of her the public hasn�t seen.
�A strategic bit of planning was to just take a bit of time to reflect
so that I can consider the opportunities that are in front of me and see
what excites me, but is purposeful,� she said of what lies ahead.
�I do want to take a bit of time also with family and, you know, focus
on them a bit more,� Tam said.
Although she will �really miss everyone� at work, Tam said she was eager
to pursue some hobbies that have fallen by the wayside due to her hectic >schedule, including long-distance running and music.
�I am a musician and I haven�t really focused on that very much,� said
Tam, noting that she plays the piano, violin, cello and trumpet.
�At some point in my career, I�ve dropped a whole bunch of them.�
But she kept her musical background in the back of her mind during the >pandemic.
�I translated a lot of my musical thinking into conducting an emergency.
So I always think of myself as like a conductor of the orchestra and how
to conduct that response.�
While the pandemic killed more than 60,000 in Canada upended so many
facets of everyday life, Tam hopes Canadians also remember it as a time
that communities responded to public health mitigation measures -
including a COVID-19 vaccine campaign - that prevented the toll from
being much worse.
As Canadians remember the horrors of the pandemic, including more than
60,000 deaths, Tam hopes they also recall the successes - including the
high percentage of people who rolled up their sleeves to be vaccinated -
that prevented the toll from being much worse.
�If we didn�t have communities doing what they did, we would not have
had an outcome that�s - relatively speaking when you compare to other,
say, G7 countries - relatively good.�
When asked about how the unrelenting pace of the pandemic, as well as
attacks from people unhappy with public health measures affected her,
Tam said her support systems, both at work and in her personal life,
were helpful.
�Mentally, it was very stressful for everyone,� she said.
But she said provincial and territorial public health officials and many >other colleagues leaned on each other.
�There were Sunday conversations, which turned very technical, but at
the same time, we wanted to use those opportunities to just share a cup
of tea over the internet and say, �Look, what�s happening? How can we
help each other?��
Tam also credits family, friends and neighbours �who all provided
supports when I felt that I�m so exhausted I can�t go on.�
�And then you have a nap and then you carry on,� she said.
Tam doesn�t want her legacy to be dominated by COVID-19. A pediatric >infectious disease physician by training, she joined the federal
government�s public health team as a field epidemiologist in 1998,
eventually rising to the position of deputy chief public health officer
and then to the top job in June 2017.
Although she�s handled several public health crises - including severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, H1N1 swine flu in 2009, mpox, >measles and the threat of H5N1 avian flu - Tam said her passion has
always been working toward health equity for all.
That includes working with racialized groups, people with low
socioeconomic status and Indigenous people, as well as those dealing
with complex societal challenges such as substance use and climate
change that threaten people�s health.
�My ambition (has been) to connect economic, social health and the >environment. And that, I hope, is a nice sort of bookend to my career as
the chief public health officer.�
In 1998, the year Tam started working in federal public health, measles
was declared eliminated in Canada. As she leaves, cases of the virus are
on the rise.
�To see measles come back, of course, to me is concerning,� she said.
�(But) I want to leave a hopeful message, which is: �We�ve done it
before and we can do it again,�� she said of stopping transmission of
the virus within Canada.
But a big part of achieving that is combating disinformation and >misinformation and building trust in vaccines and the research behind them.
�We do need to pay attention to youth and young adults. They are current
and future parents,� she said.
�They are mostly getting their information from social media and
cyberspace. They�re much more exposed to misinformation.�
Tam said it�s a critical time for Canada to stand up for science and
combat disinformation amid anti-public-health measures by U.S. President >Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. - measures that included cancelling National Institutes of Health >research projects and replacing the Centers for Disease Control and >Prevention vaccine advisory panel.
�We focus on our science-based approaches. We can play an even more
important international role (in public health) under these circumstances.�
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1laq5ti/canadas_top_doctor_theresa_tam_head_doctor_during/
Canada’s top doctor Theresa Tam leaving position when term ends June 20
By The Canadian Press
Published: June 13, 2025 at 12:57PM EDT
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam provides an update on public
health concerns related to wildfires during a press conference in Ottawa
on June 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
TORONTO — As Dr. Theresa Tam prepares to leave her position next week,
Canada’s top doctor says it’s more important than ever for Canada to
stand up for science and combat disinformation.
She’s held the role of chief public health officer for eight years, but
became a household name in the last five years as she led the country’s
public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her term ends June 20 and she doesn’t have another job lined up, Tam
said in a wide-ranging interview Friday that touched on her desire to be
remembered for more than COVID, her passion for health equity and the
musical side of her the public hasn’t seen.
“A strategic bit of planning was to just take a bit of time to reflect
so that I can consider the opportunities that are in front of me and see
what excites me, but is purposeful,” she said of what lies ahead.
“I do want to take a bit of time also with family and, you know, focus
on them a bit more,” Tam said.
Although she will “really miss everyone” at work, Tam said she was eager >> to pursue some hobbies that have fallen by the wayside due to her hectic
schedule, including long-distance running and music.
“I am a musician and I haven’t really focused on that very much,” said >> Tam, noting that she plays the piano, violin, cello and trumpet.
“At some point in my career, I’ve dropped a whole bunch of them.”
But she kept her musical background in the back of her mind during the
pandemic.
“I translated a lot of my musical thinking into conducting an emergency. >> So I always think of myself as like a conductor of the orchestra and how
to conduct that response.”
While the pandemic killed more than 60,000 in Canada upended so many
facets of everyday life, Tam hopes Canadians also remember it as a time
that communities responded to public health mitigation measures -
including a COVID-19 vaccine campaign - that prevented the toll from
being much worse.
As Canadians remember the horrors of the pandemic, including more than
60,000 deaths, Tam hopes they also recall the successes - including the
high percentage of people who rolled up their sleeves to be vaccinated -
that prevented the toll from being much worse.
“If we didn’t have communities doing what they did, we would not have
had an outcome that’s - relatively speaking when you compare to other,
say, G7 countries - relatively good.”
When asked about how the unrelenting pace of the pandemic, as well as
attacks from people unhappy with public health measures affected her,
Tam said her support systems, both at work and in her personal life,
were helpful.
“Mentally, it was very stressful for everyone,” she said.
But she said provincial and territorial public health officials and many
other colleagues leaned on each other.
“There were Sunday conversations, which turned very technical, but at
the same time, we wanted to use those opportunities to just share a cup
of tea over the internet and say, ‘Look, what’s happening? How can we
help each other?”’
Tam also credits family, friends and neighbours “who all provided
supports when I felt that I’m so exhausted I can’t go on.”
“And then you have a nap and then you carry on,” she said.
Tam doesn’t want her legacy to be dominated by COVID-19. A pediatric
infectious disease physician by training, she joined the federal
government’s public health team as a field epidemiologist in 1998,
eventually rising to the position of deputy chief public health officer
and then to the top job in June 2017.
Although she’s handled several public health crises - including severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, H1N1 swine flu in 2009, mpox,
measles and the threat of H5N1 avian flu - Tam said her passion has
always been working toward health equity for all.
That includes working with racialized groups, people with low
socioeconomic status and Indigenous people, as well as those dealing
with complex societal challenges such as substance use and climate
change that threaten people’s health.
“My ambition (has been) to connect economic, social health and the
environment. And that, I hope, is a nice sort of bookend to my career as
the chief public health officer.”
In 1998, the year Tam started working in federal public health, measles
was declared eliminated in Canada. As she leaves, cases of the virus are
on the rise.
“To see measles come back, of course, to me is concerning,” she said.
“(But) I want to leave a hopeful message, which is: ‘We’ve done it
before and we can do it again,”’ she said of stopping transmission of
the virus within Canada.
But a big part of achieving that is combating disinformation and
misinformation and building trust in vaccines and the research behind them. >>
“We do need to pay attention to youth and young adults. They are current >> and future parents,” she said.
“They are mostly getting their information from social media and
cyberspace. They’re much more exposed to misinformation.”
Tam said it’s a critical time for Canada to stand up for science and
combat disinformation amid anti-public-health measures by U.S. President
Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. - measures that included cancelling National Institutes of Health
research projects and replacing the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention vaccine advisory panel.
“We focus on our science-based approaches. We can play an even more
important international role (in public health) under these circumstances.”
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1laq5ti/canadas_top_doctor_theresa_tam_head_doctor_during/In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
Canada�s top doctor Theresa Tam leaving position when term ends June 20
By The Canadian Press
Published: June 13, 2025 at 12:57PM EDT
Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam provides an update on public >>> health concerns related to wildfires during a press conference in Ottawa >>> on June 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
TORONTO � As Dr. Theresa Tam prepares to leave her position next week,
Canada�s top doctor says it�s more important than ever for Canada to
stand up for science and combat disinformation.
She�s held the role of chief public health officer for eight years, but
became a household name in the last five years as she led the country�s
public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her term ends June 20 and she doesn�t have another job lined up, Tam
said in a wide-ranging interview Friday that touched on her desire to be >>> remembered for more than COVID, her passion for health equity and the
musical side of her the public hasn�t seen.
�A strategic bit of planning was to just take a bit of time to reflect
so that I can consider the opportunities that are in front of me and see >>> what excites me, but is purposeful,� she said of what lies ahead.
�I do want to take a bit of time also with family and, you know, focus
on them a bit more,� Tam said.
Although she will �really miss everyone� at work, Tam said she was eager >>> to pursue some hobbies that have fallen by the wayside due to her hectic >>> schedule, including long-distance running and music.
�I am a musician and I haven�t really focused on that very much,� said
Tam, noting that she plays the piano, violin, cello and trumpet.
�At some point in my career, I�ve dropped a whole bunch of them.�
But she kept her musical background in the back of her mind during the
pandemic.
�I translated a lot of my musical thinking into conducting an emergency. >>> So I always think of myself as like a conductor of the orchestra and how >>> to conduct that response.�
While the pandemic killed more than 60,000 in Canada upended so many
facets of everyday life, Tam hopes Canadians also remember it as a time
that communities responded to public health mitigation measures -
including a COVID-19 vaccine campaign - that prevented the toll from
being much worse.
As Canadians remember the horrors of the pandemic, including more than
60,000 deaths, Tam hopes they also recall the successes - including the
high percentage of people who rolled up their sleeves to be vaccinated - >>> that prevented the toll from being much worse.
�If we didn�t have communities doing what they did, we would not have
had an outcome that�s - relatively speaking when you compare to other,
say, G7 countries - relatively good.�
When asked about how the unrelenting pace of the pandemic, as well as
attacks from people unhappy with public health measures affected her,
Tam said her support systems, both at work and in her personal life,
were helpful.
�Mentally, it was very stressful for everyone,� she said.
But she said provincial and territorial public health officials and many >>> other colleagues leaned on each other.
�There were Sunday conversations, which turned very technical, but at
the same time, we wanted to use those opportunities to just share a cup
of tea over the internet and say, �Look, what�s happening? How can we
help each other?��
Tam also credits family, friends and neighbours �who all provided
supports when I felt that I�m so exhausted I can�t go on.�
�And then you have a nap and then you carry on,� she said.
Tam doesn�t want her legacy to be dominated by COVID-19. A pediatric
infectious disease physician by training, she joined the federal
government�s public health team as a field epidemiologist in 1998,
eventually rising to the position of deputy chief public health officer
and then to the top job in June 2017.
Although she�s handled several public health crises - including severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, H1N1 swine flu in 2009, mpox, >>> measles and the threat of H5N1 avian flu - Tam said her passion has
always been working toward health equity for all.
That includes working with racialized groups, people with low
socioeconomic status and Indigenous people, as well as those dealing
with complex societal challenges such as substance use and climate
change that threaten people�s health.
�My ambition (has been) to connect economic, social health and the
environment. And that, I hope, is a nice sort of bookend to my career as >>> the chief public health officer.�
In 1998, the year Tam started working in federal public health, measles
was declared eliminated in Canada. As she leaves, cases of the virus are >>> on the rise.
�To see measles come back, of course, to me is concerning,� she said.
�(But) I want to leave a hopeful message, which is: �We�ve done it
before and we can do it again,�� she said of stopping transmission of
the virus within Canada.
But a big part of achieving that is combating disinformation and
misinformation and building trust in vaccines and the research behind them. >>>
�We do need to pay attention to youth and young adults. They are current >>> and future parents,� she said.
�They are mostly getting their information from social media and
cyberspace. They�re much more exposed to misinformation.�
Tam said it�s a critical time for Canada to stand up for science and
combat disinformation amid anti-public-health measures by U.S. President >>> Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. - measures that included cancelling National Institutes of Health
research projects and replacing the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention vaccine advisory panel.
�We focus on our science-based approaches. We can play an even more
important international role (in public health) under these circumstances.� >>
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the Canada & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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