Jan Hajek is an infectious diseases specialist at the Vancouver General Hospital and a clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. He has worked in Toronto during SARS, in Newfoundland during the H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic, in West Africa during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and this past year has worked on the COVID ward at Vancouver General Hospital.
A private member's bill sponsored by federal Conservative MP John Barlow co-opted genuine concerns about infectious disease as a pretext for targeting animal protection advocates, write Jan Hajek and Kaitlyn Mitchell.
