{"id":5497,"date":"2024-04-23T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T02:04:38","slug":"contrarian-doctor-a-good-choice-to-lead-covid-19-data-review-alberta-premier-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/contrarian-doctor-a-good-choice-to-lead-covid-19-data-review-alberta-premier-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Contrarian\u2019 doctor a good choice to lead COVID-19 data review, Alberta premier says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says it\u2019s a good idea to have a physician who accused the province of exaggerating COVID-19\u2019s impact on hospitals now lead a review of pandemic-era health data.<\/p>\n<p>Smith says Dr. Gary Davidson was selected to lead the data review because she wants to hear a range of viewpoints, including from those \u201cshouted down in the public sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI needed somebody who was going to look at everything that happened with some fresh eyes and maybe with a little bit of a contrarian perspective because we\u2019ve only ever been given one perspective,\u201d Smith told reporters at the legislature Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says it\u2019s a good idea to have a physician who accused the province of exaggerating COVID-19\u2019s impact on hospitals now lead a review of pandemic-era health data.<\/p>\n<p>Smith says Dr. Gary Davidson was selected to lead the data review because she wants to hear a range of viewpoints, including from those \u201cshouted down in the public sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/contrarian-doctor-a-good-choice-to-lead-covid-19-data-review-alberta-premier-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Contrarian\u2019 doctor a good choice to lead COVID-19 data review, Alberta premier says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,18,535,97,309,14],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-ivermectin","tag-pandemic-response","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}