If non-essential businesses and other parts of the economy are allowed to reopen too soon after students go back to class, finding and controlling the source of COVID-19 spread will be much more difficult, public health physicians say.
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Modelling an important factor in COVID-19 public-health decisions The use of data is vital in making the best and most informed decision in the public-health world. And while health units in Ontario are subject to the province’s decisions, the modelling used at the more local level has helped guide recommendations and resources as COVID-19 cases both increase and decline.
Author of the article: Greg Colgan
Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021 • February 13, 2021 • 3 minute read • This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Photo by SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press
Modelling an important factor in COVID-19 public health decisions The use of data is vital in making the best and most informed decision in the public-health world. And while health units in Ontario are subject to the province’s decisions, the modelling used at the more local level has helped guide recommendations and resources as COVID-19 cases both increase and decline.
Author of the article: Greg Colgan
Publishing date: Feb 12, 2021 • February 13, 2021 • 3 minute read • This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, emerging from the surface of cells, green, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Photo by SUPPLIED /The Canadian Press