Canada’s Future Pandemic Plan: A Reflection of COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 is one of the most recent and devastating pandemic the world is facing. Canada, despite preparation with developing national and provincial pandemic plans, experiencing a delay of transmission of COVID-19, and maintaining international connections, Canada experienced disappointing challenges. This paper evaluates COVID-19 and Canada's actions towards research, surveillance, health care, case tracking, vaccines, and social communication, as a measure of evaluation on Canada’s preparedness. Here a combination of data is used, including statistics of Canada’s case/death count, along with analysis of many other countries around the world, including South Korea, Israel, and the United States. With many countries implementing various regulations at different time periods during the growth of COVID-19, this paper considers and interprets the importance of various government interventions. SARS-CoV-2 is extremely transmissible and mutable, emphasizing the importance of rapid efforts to mitigate impacts and to focus on the most vulnerable. As COVID-19 continues to evolve, without any effective control measures, Canada would continue to see a disproportionate influence of COVID-19. Additionally, since a future pandemic is unavoidable, the COVID-19 pandemic is an amazing event that showcases Canada’s places of improvement and development. This proposed plan outlines elements that Canada should consider, as we continue to fight against SARS-CoV-2, and for the future epidemics/pandemics.