Celeste McGovern
Mon Mar 8, 2021 – 3:13 pm EST
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Last week, Health Canada agreed to purchase 2 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which was granted emergency use authorization by the World Health Organization in mid-February.
Posts on Twitter and other social media denounced de Villa’s husband’s financial ties to vaccine industry manufacturers as a “conflict of interest.”
“Was the fact that [de Villa’s] husband (Richard Choi), who was paid by Pfizer and [AstraZeneca], ever disclosed, or assessed for potential conflict of interest?” tweeted Peter Varelas.
“Strange how so many public health members supporting #lockdown have these interesting connections. [John Tory and Christine Elliott,] are you sure you can trust the people around you?” Lysander Murphy posted.
De Villa has come under fire for refusing to move Toronto out of its “Grey Zone” draconian lockdown status, though just 0.004% of the population is hospitalized with the coronavirus. 108 patients in the city were hospitalized with the virus on March 3, 43 of them in ICUs, when she said the stay-at-home orders would continue another two weeks. Toronto has a population of more than 2.7 million people.
At a press conference on Wednesday, when de Villa was asked to cite data she was using to keep Torontonians out of work and school and tens of thousands of businesses shuttered, she did not answer but said it was about protecting public health.
“Like Ontario Science Table member, David Fisman, who took money from a teachers’ union to argue against school reopening, Dr. de Villa stands in clear conflict of interest with her power to stoke public fears and, consequently, increase demand for Pfizer and [AstraZeneca] vaccines,” said a statement made by a group called Bright Light News.
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