covid — Media — Michael Bociurkiw

CNN Opinion: Omicron and the Olympics could be on a collision course with China's zero-Covid strategy

Can Chinese officials -- who initially kept the 2003 SARS outbreak under wraps for months and have not been fully transparent about the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan -- be trusted to provide realistic case figures during the February 2022 Winter Olympics?

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CNN Opinion: How Justin Trudeau one-upped Joe Biden

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just pulled off a feat many thought wouldn’t be possible - and just in time for a probable federal election.

Cross-Atlantic Power Panel: The Year Just Passed, The Year Ahead

In conversation with Curzon of London’s Farzana Baduel: Michael Bociurkiw discusses the year just passed and what we can expect in the year ahead.

Al Jazeera: Covid-19 and The Year Ahead

On Al Jazeera’s prime time flagship program, News Hour, host Lauren Taylor speaks to Michael Bociurkiw about the spiralling Covid-19 crisis in the U.S., and his predictions for the year ahead.

CNN Opinion: Why Canada Flattened the Curve - and the US Didn't

The US Covid-19 cases per capita are more than five times what they are in Canada. This OpEd looks at some of the factors which allowed Canada to crush the curve.

CNN Opinion: Is China the new leader on the world health stage?

The World Health Assembly (WHA) -- the biggest event on the global health agenda -- held on Monday and Tuesday this week, can be easily summed up: The Trump administration threatened to take the UN agency off life support as it fights a global pandemic -- and Chinese President Xi Jinping threw it a new life line.