MONTREAL As hospitalizations for COVID-19 continue to rise in Quebec, beds are being set up in unconventional places like hotel rooms and reception halls, Health Minister Christian Dube said on Friday. Dube made the announcement at a news conference alongside public health director Dr. Horacio Arruda, where he once again asked Quebecers not to gather over the holidays. “Yesterday, we reached 1,000 hospitalizations for COVID patients, Dube said. If we continue this way, we will go beyond our capacity. The province has 2,164 beds dedicated to COVID-19 patients across the province. As of Friday, 1,011 of them are filled. Ten hospitals are in a critical situation currently for COVID beds, Dube said.
Epidemiologists have been calling for this measure for weeks as Quebec’s COVID-19 caseload and deaths rise. However, all circuit-breakers are not created equal, they say there are key ingredients to making one work, and Quebec doesn’t seem to have those lined up. Dr. Matthew Oughton, an infectious diseases specialist at McGill University, spoke to CTV News about what makes a lockdown effective and what Quebec is still missing.
WHAT’S A CIRCUIT-BREAKER? The point of a short-term lockdown is to do “a full-court press” on COVID-19, said Oughton. “Control this disease, get it down to zero or as close to zero as we can.”
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Published: 15 Dec 2020 12:14 PM BdST
Updated: 15 Dec 2020 12:14 PM BdST A healthcare worker administers a Pfizer/BioNTEch coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to personal support worker Anita Quidangen at The Michener Institute, in Toronto, Canada Dec 14, 2020. REUTERS
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The first dose broadcast on live TV went to Anita Quidangen. The personal support worker at the Rekai Centre, a non-profit nursing home for the elderly in Toronto, Canada s largest city, said she was excited to have been first in line.
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The first dose broadcast on live TV went to Anita Quidangen. The personal support worker at the Rekai Centre, a non-profit nursing home for the elderly in Toronto, Canada s largest city, said she was excited to have been first in line. Reuters
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Canada kicked off its inoculation campaign against COVID-19 on Monday by injecting frontline healthcare workers and elderly nursing home residents, becoming just the third nation in the world to administer the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.