Public fitness officials call for stricter restrictions and warn that COVID-19 may be uncontrollable
Infectious disease experts say that the Canadian fitness government wants to re-tighten restrictions, in a different way, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 will accumulate exponentially in the coming weeks. Canada reported 1,248 new cases on Wednesday, and public health director Theresa Tam presented projections. which show that new instances can rise to 5,000 based on the day through October if we continue the existing momentum.
“Today, we’re not moving fast enough to move forward,” Dr Michael Gardam, an infectious disease specialist founded at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, told CBC News. “I think we are asleep in a false sense of security due to the low number of hospitalizations and deaths [compared to the onset of the pandemic]. But they will in the next six weeks or so. “
He said gently asking others to reinforce their social circles would not be enough. Gardam said Canadians were tired of restrictions in their previous social circles in the year and would not be willing to return to them unless they were in a hurry. “I think we’re going to have to be a lot more energetic,” he said. Right now, “other people are playing fast and freely with bubbles everywhere. “
Actions over the next two weeks can replace the pandemic’s trajectory in the coming months, said Laura Rosella, epidemiologist and associate professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. “There are many things with this pandemic that we can’t fix but maybe we can interact with, especially socially, and who’s in our bubble,” Rosella said. “I inspire everyone to reconsider what their bubbles are in the face of the new situation. “
Controlling this increase in COVID-19 means returning to the restrictions previously implemented in the pandemic, said Dr. Samir Gupta, a clinical researcher at St. John’s Hospital. Michael and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Hiscox at CBC Morning Live on Wednesday, Gupta said Canadians “must start making sacrifices for the first time,” which they controlled to flatten the curve in the spring.
IN SHORT
Ontario sees 409 new instances of COVID-19 and implements an updated $1 billion check and touch search plan
Ontario reported another 409 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, while Prime Minister Doug Ford said his government would invest $1 billion to expand pre-influenza detection and tactile search capability, adding about $30 million to “prevent and manage epidemics” as a precedent for services such as long-term care services. Arrange retirement homes and schools.
The province’s network of laboratories is currently facing a backlog of 53,840 control samples, the most since infections were first detected in January. At a press conference, fitness officials said state-funded screening sites were moving away from providing screening to asymptomatic people. , the province will once again adopt a more specific approach, as hospitals, monitoring sites and laboratories have reported being hit through a public call for monitoring.
“We know that during the summer, when we opened the evidence to those who looked for them, we didn’t locate a case,” dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario’s associate medical director of health. “At the moment, we want to focus on other symptomatic people, other people who are contacts, others on the occasion of an epidemic or very urgent populations where we have indicated that we want to screen. It doesn’t happen for testing. It’s worthless. In fact, what we discovered is that when there are very few COVIDs in this group, we end up with false positives, which further complicates things. “
Testing on other asymptomatic people will be limited to pharmacies, an initiative announced through Ford earlier this week. According to Matthew Anderson, president and chief executive of Health Ontario, the province expects to conduct up to 50,000 tests consistent with October.
No one likes to wear a mask; however, with COVID-19 instances on the rise, you deserve to use it more than you think
Experts warn that at this level of the pandemic, as the benefits of wearing a mask are evident and COVID-19 cases accumulate quickly, Canadians deserve to put on the mask as much as possible.
“Keep dressed in your mask as much as you can, especially with others you don’t live with,” Toronto Health Medical Officer Dr. Eileen of Villa. Many experts who spoke with CBC News this week say it means keep a mask in a variety of contexts, even if local regulations don’t require it.
Dr. Zain Chagla, associate professor of medicine at McMaster University and consultant on infectious diseases in St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton said masks are useful when it’s hard to stay a few feet away, “even if you’re on the terrace, until you have to eat and drink, then put it back on,” he says. We just have to make other people make it a reflection. “
Timothy Caulfield, a Edmonton-based fitness policy expert, agreed that other people deserve to try to wear a mask around anyone outside at home. “If it’s an indoor environment and you can’t get that two-meter smart area all the time, dressed in a mask, even if you’re members of the family circle,” said Caulfield, Canada’s Chair of Research in Health Law and Policy and Director of Research at the University of Alberta Institute of Health Law.
Liberals accumulate some of COVID-19’s benefits in a new bill
The federal government enacted a law Thursday to provide what it calls a “safe bridge” for Canadians who still suffer a loss of source of income as a result of COVID-19. The proposed new package of measures is designed to take others out of the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to an expanded employment insurance program or one of 3 new recovery benefits. The C-2 bill also provides 10 days of ill health leave, which had been required by the NDP.
At a press conference in Ottawa, Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough said CERB was temporarily held at a time when the economy was stagnant to the fullest. “I think we’ve created a much more sublime balance in Bill C-2 between the desire not to discourage paintings, but also with other people who, despite the effort, still don’t paint or have particularly reduced their hours,” he said.
Qualtrough said the last few months have revealed gaps in the IE system, which is why the government needs to modernize it to better reflect Canada’s existing labor market. it is less difficult for others to qualify for a period of one year.
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SCIENCE
The Quebec holidays in early March have contributed to the province’s spring problems.
COVID-19 may have simply been transported to Quebec through just 247 people who returned home after traveling, according to a new genome sequencing study conducted through the Quebec National Institute of Public Health and the McGill Genomics Center. 734 COVID-19 samples in Quebec between mid-February and April 1 and compared to more than 21,000 other samples worldwide.
In Quebec, the first case shown of COVID-19 was tracked as early as February 25, according to the study, however, this and other early cases were well contained and did not led to sustained transmission. “At first it’s a network,” said Jesse. Shapiro, associate professor at the Department of Human Genetics and head of genome science at McGill, noted that it was less difficult to handle the few instances of COVID-19 in the province at the time.
This network became a wave of newcomers after the province’s first spring break, with many travelers returning to Quebec after traveling abroad. The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, suggests what many already suspected: early rupture, which began on February 29, key to the spread of the virus before the end of the pattern in mid-March.
According to the study, nearly a third of infections in Quebec came from Europe, of which 12% came from France, only 31% of the virus samples studied came from the Caribbean and Latin America, and about 24% from the United States. States, it seems that few transmissions come from Asia.
AND FINALLY. . .
Disney reports on black widow, West Side Story
The Walt Disney Co. has postponed its upcoming Marvel mega-films, adding Black Widow, while postponing Steven Spielberg’s West Side story for a full year in the company’s most recent recalibration due to the pandemic.
Ten of Disney’s most productive films replaced their release dates wednesday, uprooting many of the company’s major fall releases. Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel Black Widow, last filmed on November 6, will now be released on May 7 next year. The mystery of Kenneth Branagh’s murder, Death on the Nile, moves to December 18, the date set for West Side Story, but Spielberg’s musical will end in December 2021.
Disney has absolutely not given up on the season. The of Pixar Soul remains on the Calfinishar until the end of November, but delays in Disney’s upcoming blockbusters are reinforcing the 2020 exodus in development among films that hadn’t been uprooted until next year.
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