New Brunswick premier looks back and ahead on COVID-19 decisions in his province
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The premier of New Brunswick says in hindsight his province should have maintained some COVID-19 restrictions through the Labour Day weekend.
The premier of New Brunswick says in hindsight his province should have maintained some COVID-19 restrictions through the Labour Day weekend, rather than lifting the public health measures at the end of July.
Blaine Higgs says the decision was based on the information he had at the time.
“We followed recommendations very closely through the pandemic, and based on the facts, and based on our ability to manage it. That led to our opening,” Higgs said recently in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press.
“We thought we were out of the woods. We get 70 per cent vaccination levels and we’re good,” Higgs said.
But Colin Furness, a professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, said Higgs was either getting bad information or playing politics.
“When the politicians are trying to frame themselves as the bearers of good news, you’ve got problems,” Furness said in an interview Saturday.
“New Brunswick was doing really well when it was aligned with the rest of the Atlantic Provinces. The whole region did so well,” he said.
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