Quebec’s ‘Punitive’ Pandemic Response Did Not Effectively Curb COVID-19 Spread, Report Finds

Report says Quebec's approach to handling pandemic is based on 'political choice' and not the obligation to 'flatten the curve'

, --March 15, 2022

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The Quebec government has issued tens of thousands of fines to residents who did not comply with its pandemic restrictions, but a new report finds that this “punitive” approach does not necessarily slow the spread of COVID-19. “Québec chose to turn the public health crisis into a public safety crisis, managed with 46,563 police interventions,” concluded the report, conducted by four researchers from the University of Montreal’s Profiling Observatory (l’Observatoire des profilages) and released on March 10.-- More...

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