Talk:Theresa Tam

"Chief Health Officers of Canada" template

The "Chief Health Officers of Canada" template is not editable because "Wikipedia does not have a template with this exact title", despite clicking on the Edit link on the template! This is an issue because the Alberta and British Columbia public health officers have been interchanged. --Craig (t|c) 18:59, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

It's been fixed, thanks for bringing it into attention! _dk (talk) 20:24, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I see that the template is now editable. Odd that it wasn't before. --Craig (t|c) 22:56, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 April 2020 - additional info regarding Theresa Tam

PLEASE ADD (nothing to remove)

Tam has served on three World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committees: Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and poliovirus.

REF: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/189/10/E418.full.pdf

EBOLA REF: https://www.who.int/ihr/procedures/biographies_ebola_review_committee/en/

MERS REF: https://www.who.int/ihr/procedures/emerg_comm_members/en/

POLIOVIRUS REF: https://www.who.int/ihr/procedures/poliovirus-ec-former-member-biographies/en/ Emmaplant (talk) 20:48, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: According to the page's protection level you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. DarthFlappy (talk) 19:17, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 May 2020

Tam refused to tell people wear a mask. She believed wearing masks would give people a false sense of security despite the fact that wearing masks saved lots of lives.

Add additional sources (when Teresa Tam is quoted but no source is given) and additional context and comments of her actions regarding Covid-19. The quotes only cite her as saying that essentially the disease was not a concern, but these quotes are all from early on in the pandemic when there were no cases in Canada and little about the disease is known. There should also be information added to include what she has done since it came to Canada and the changes in guidelines as the disease became to be understood as a more serious threat. Cmichdee (talk) 01:30, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

@Cmichdee:  Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. GoingBatty (talk) 01:42, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Discrimination

I find much of the text relating to Dr. Tam's reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic to be troubling. It betrays a very critical, possibly racist and certainly unfair and slanted orientation.

Please rephrase that section to include more balance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WesternWilson (talk • contribs) 21:59, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 May 2020

Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-dr-tams-about-face-on-masks-damages-trust-at-a-crucial-time/ 216.59.246.180 (talk) 14:35, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. It's not clear what changes you want to make. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 15:12, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Publications by Theresa W.S. Tam, MBBS (UK), FRCPC, FAAP

• Theresa W.S. Tam, Agence de la santé publique du Canada, Mendeley.

Date of birth?

Born 1965. Didn't find exact date (day and month?).

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I am contacting Health Canada to get this info. 🙏 41.82.176.190 (talk) 19:09, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 October 2020

Please add her post-nominals of "FRCPC" or "Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada." It is standard practice across Wikipedia pages for Canadians to include their non-academic honours' post-nominals (e.g. "PC", "CC", "QC", "CMM", "CD", "FRSC", et cetera). 138.51.252.205 (talk) 03:23, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Done.Citing (talk) 14:34, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 pandemic

I have real issues with this section. It's pretty much all a bullet-point list of negative, cherry-picked factoids which seem to have been written by an anti-masker and anti-vaxxer with an agenda to make Tam sound incompetent. She may or may not be incompetent, but if she is incompetent then whoever has written this section needs to come right out and make that statement and provide the necessary citations to back that up. However, the fact is that Tam has been in her position for about five years now. If she *was* incompetent, then assumedly she'd have been fired by now. The fact that she hasn't makes this focus on a few bad predictions (which were very likely made by others in the same department and in other countries) uncalled for, and very non-NPOV. --Craig (t|c) 12:19, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

It is indeed a very poorly written section. I've been monitoring this article but mostly to keep out the wildest and worst conspiracy theorists.Citing (talk) 16:22, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Understood. I should help the situation by rewriting it, and I'll put that on my to-do list. --Craig (t|c) 07:59, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 December 2021

Hi - it's MBBS not BMBS.... CVGasman (talk) 00:14, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

@CVGasman done. Apparently both are acceptable but MBBS is more common and she's used it in a publication herself (eg). Citing (talk) 00:32, 22 December 2021 (UTC)