Healthy Future: Lessons From The Frontlines Of A Crisis

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Author Meili, Ryan
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This gripping account of the COVID-19 experience in Saskatchewan goes beyond pandemic memoir to draw lessons we can use to create a healthier future.

Filled with moving stories of how COVID changed people’s lives, Ryan Meili’s deeply humane account of the pandemic draws on his unique experience as a doctor and as the leader of Saskatchewan’s official opposition during the first two years of the outbreak. A Healthy Future reveals how the pandemic exposed and made worse problems in health care, elder care, education, and social supports – and details how we can do better.

Written with passion and commitment, this book offers a firsthand look at how the pandemic laid bare the shortcomings of Saskatchewan’s – and Canada’s – public health response, with tragic results. It also provides an inspiring vision of what Canadians can learn from the pandemic to create a healthier and more equitable future.



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This riveting insider’s account of how the COVID-19 pandemic unfurled in one of Canada’s hardest-hit provinces draws on the lessons learned to provide a hopeful vision for building a healthier future.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Wisdom in the Scars / Katharine Smart

Introduction

First Wave

Gathering Clouds

The Longest March

Losing Trust

Reopening Minds

Eye of the Storm

Second Wave

Ignoring the Signs

Back to School

Respecting Our Elders

Third Wave

Miracles and Mudholes

Variants of Concern

Fourth Wave

Best Summer Ever

The Dam Breaks

Fifth Wave

Putting It Mildly

Waving Goodbye

Lessons for the Next Wave

Acknowledgments; Notes; Index



Review Quotes

"[Meili] has done us a service in meticulously chronicling a ghastly period."



“When the pandemic arrived, Dr. Ryan Meili was both a physician and the leader of the NDP opposition in Saskatchewan. He was in a unique position to take part in both the medical and the political responses to COVID-19, and he kept meticulous notes. He transformed them into an insightful journal of Saskatchewan’s plague years in A Healthy Future: Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis, his new book published this fall.”