A year after New Brunswick residents set a dubious Canadian record for COVID-19 deaths, provincial health officials remain reluctant to speak about what went wrong in the province, or even acknowledge that things did go wrong.
According to data released by Statistics Canada last month, New Brunswick recorded 657 deaths caused by COVID-19 in 2022.
The agency calculated the mortality rate to be 80.9 COVID deaths per 100,000 residents for the year, which is the highest recorded by any Canadian province or territory since vaccines became available in 2021.
It also eclipsed death rates of 47 of 50 U.S. states in 2022, with only West Virginia, Kentucky and
