Authors dig deep into government’s response to COVID-19

The following is an excerpt from 'Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada's Response to COVID-19', which is one of five finalists for this year's Donner Prize for the best public policy book of the year.

Seized By Uncertainty: The Markets, Media and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19, by Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore, and Brianna Wolfe, published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Book cover and author photographs courtesy of McGill-Queen's University Press

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BY KEVIN QUIGLEY, KAITLYNNE LOWE, SARAH MOORE, AND BRIANNA WOLFE

May 12, 2025

Gathering reliable and predictive information was difficult, particularly at the outset. With death and transmission rates initially seeming high, governments were pressured into a proactive precautionary stance, focused first on containment, and then on slowing transmission...

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