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This is the second in the mini-series,  recorded on the 22nd April, and devoted to a broader and fuller  understanding of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic which has beset us  all for the past few months.

Michael McKay speaks to someone with hard and proven experience in  another country that had been affected quite seriously by the SARS  epidemic some 17 years ago. Mario Possamai, who, by profession, is a  forensic investigator, and author. And was Senior Adviser for 4 years  for Occupational Health & Safety and Pandemic Planning on the  Canada’s SARS Commission. That was the judicial inquiry into the  outbreak of SARS in 2003. It was styled as the first major epidemic of  the 21st century and, ominously, a dress rehearsal for the COVID-19  pandemic. Mario was the Commission’s chief investigator into death and  illness among health care workers, who comprised about half of all SARS  victims in Canada.