2024-03-13 23:28:16
For Quebec’s national director of public health, Luc Boileau, the pandemic will have taught us a lot of things about our health system.
Mr. Boileau maintains that Quebec is today much better prepared to face a health crisis in the future.
“I’m not telling you that we are prepared for all situations, but we are certainly much better than where we were four years ago […] we will hope not to need to face it,” he expressed
And if the pandemic already seems far behind us, the risks of another virus disrupting the functioning of society still exist, particularly due to climate change.
“With climate change, there will be more and more pandemics,” says Dr. Marie-Michelle Bellon, internist.
Dr. Bellon refers in particular to viruses that could be transmitted by insects such as mosquitoes and ticks.
Before talking about other diseases, Dr. Bellon and the Canadian COVID Society, of which she is a part, believe that the coronavirus which kept us in isolation for months is still very present today.
“We have trivialized this virus, the COVID virus. It is everywhere and we are constantly exposed,” she argues.
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