New COVID-19 Modelling Is Encouraging, But Canada Not Out Of The Woods Yet

OTTAWA — Canada’s top doctor says the country has been successful at slowing the spread of COVID-19 but is warning that relaxing public health restrictions too quickly or too soon could lead to a rampant resurgence of the disease.

Dr. Theresa Tam presented a new report on the novel coronavirus in Canada, including new short-term projections that say between 157 and 1,857 more Canadians could die of COVID-19 in the next 11 days. The projections, based on recent trends, estimate in the best-case scenario at least another 4,459 people will be diagnosed with COVID-19 by June 15, and in the worst-case scenario there will be more than 14,000 new cases by then.Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam takes part in a press conference on Parliament Hill during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Thursday.

She said initial models were partly based on knowledge of how the virus spreads and what the known incubation period is, while these numbers are now based more on actual case data in Canada.Tam said most of the country has seen spread of the disease diminish substantially but there remain hot spots of community transmission in Toronto and Montreal that are concerning. In the last two weeks, Ontario and Quebec accounted for 90 per cent of new cases, and most of those were in those two cities.

She said as the country relaxes some measures, with more people returning to work and going out, it is critical to practice physical distancing, wear face masks and wash hands frequently. The health system also has to make sure it is keeping on top of testing and tracing new cases so patients can be identified and isolated as soon as possible.

How do they know that?

Big cities are normally hotspots for disease transmission. Nothing new or shocking here.

And how many of them will be protesters?

That spells immunity for many just like the real doctors are hoping for.

as long as the hospitals don't get overwhelmed why would we care?

Large cities like Toronto and Montreal are still producing hotspot statistics of covid19, new infections. People who live in densely populated cities are at the highest risks. What is unique about these large cities are many single people. Are they giving up their sex lives?

brampton parties make it worse...come on brampton

So go thug protesting and get it over with.

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