Assessing Ottawa Public Health’s ongoing response to the endoscopies infection scare
Guest post by Josh Greenberg, PhD Establishing the scenario In a hastily organized media conference on Saturday, October 15, 2011, the City of Ottawa’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Isra Levy, announced that a local, privately owned “non-hospital” medical clinic failed to follow proper infection control measures, resulting in the potential exposure of 6,800 patients to Hepatitis and HIV. According to Dr. Levy, there was no evidence that a single patient had been infected...