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When Trust Killed: Canada's Tainted Blood-and the $5,000 Verdict
When Trust Killed: Canada's Tainted Blood-and the $5,000 Verdict
Trust in a public system turned deadly: thirty thousand people were infected and eight thousand died or were expected to die, yet a court fine in May 2005 was only five thousand dollars - the statutory maximum. How did a trusted, decades-old blood system, run by the Canadian Red Cross and tied to Connaught Laboratories, allow preventable infections from HIV and hepatitis C to spread through hospitals and hemophilia treatments?
In this episode, we trace the timeline and decisions that shaped the tainted blood crisis, from the Red…
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