If left to continue, the acute care health system will be overrun in the near future. More than 70 of Alberta’s physicians, medical professionals, and infectious disease specialists are pleading for a ‘sharp’ two-week lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19. It will allow contact tracers to catch up and easing the pressures on the healthcare system.
The short lockdown – ‘circuit breaker’ – would allow the government to better formulate targeted regional public health measures that would reduce the spread of infections.
A circuit breaker is a temporary lockdown with a set end date, rather than an extended lockdown until cases drop past a certain point. It is a strategy being used by several European governments to ‘reset’ infection rates so public health authorities have time to plot the best path forward.
While lockdowns and restrictions have a significant impact on people’s ability to earn an income and socialize with friends and family, it is clear that a minimal impairment approach and requests to the people of Alberta to voluntarily stop holding social gatherings in the homes is unlikely to slow the rate of spread.
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