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Mere hours after Seniors Minister Everett Hindley held his first COVID-19 briefing Thursday to announce a loosening of restrictions in Saskatchewan care homes by Mother’s Day, doctors in the province were hit with a far different message.
The latter came in the weekly Thursday evening “physicians’ town hall” held by the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) that proclaimed the only area of controllable COVID-19 transmission risk in this province this past week was confined to the Cumberland region in the province’s far northeast. The southern three-quarters of the province’s grainbelt was categorized as areas where there is a “high likelihood that COVID transmission is not controlled.”
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It’s never been right to talk about “political wins” during this COVID-19 pandemic, and it seems especially misplaced to talk about Premier Scott Moe’s political wins after the week he’s just had.
Saskatchewan now has the highest per capita COVID-19 hospitalization rate in the country and record ICU numbers. So bad are things in Regina that ICU doctors pleaded with Moe and Health Minister Paul Merriman to come and see the mess for themselves an invitation quickly rejected by reason of politicians not wanting to get in the way in crowded ICUs.
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Mere hours after Seniors Minister Everett Hindley held his first COVID-19 briefing Thursday to announce a loosening of restrictions in Saskatchewan care homes by Mother’s Day, doctors in the province were hit with a far different message.
The latter came in the weekly Thursday evening “physicians’ town hall” held by the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) that proclaimed the only area of controllable COVID-19 transmission risk in this province this past week was confined to the Cumberland region in the province’s far northeast. The southern three-quarters of the province’s grainbelt was categorized as areas where there is a “high likelihood that COVID transmission is not controlled.”
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