{"id":137,"date":"2020-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/02\/28\/canada-public-health-officers\/"},"modified":"2020-02-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T12:00:00","slug":"canada-public-health-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/02\/28\/canada-public-health-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"From Behind the Scenes to the Forefront: Canada\u2019s Public Health Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Provincial health officers are career civil servants, not communicators, and most had never given a televised briefing before this year. Several now do one every day.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The cost of daily visibility<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The role demands something the training never covered: explaining uncertainty repeatedly, in public, while the underlying advice changes. Getting that tone wrong in either direction erodes the compliance the advice depends on.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What has worked is unglamorous. Plain sentences, published data, and an explicit admission when a recommendation has been revised and why.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The offices will return to obscurity eventually. The question is whether the public trust built in the meantime survives the return.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials who spent careers writing guidance nobody read are now holding daily briefings watched by millions. The job has not changed; the audience has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}