Talk:Theresa Tam
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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