Dr. Peter Jüni, the epidemiologist and professor of medicine who has spent most of the pandemic offering unvarnished advice to the provincial government as scientific director of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, is resigning to take up a research post overseas. His last day with the science table will be in late spring. One such moment came in mid-April 2021, when the science table called for increased sick days for essential workers disproportionately affected by COVID and better on-the-job protections amid rising case numbers and increased ICU occupancy. Jüni does admit that the province’s recent decision to lift masking mandates in most public spaces took him by surprise. Assessing Ontario’s overall weathering of the storm to date, Jüni says he is confident that the province did much better than most western jurisdictions.

Source: thestar March 19, 2022 02:01 UTC