Former Alberta CMOH calls for 'urgent' COVID-19 change
CBC
Alberta's former chief medical officer of health (CMOH) has co-written a letter to the province's new health minister Jason Copping, strongly recommending additional measures in the province as the pandemic's fourth wave continues to strain hospital capacity.
Dr. James Talbot, former CMOH, and Dr. Noel Gibney, a critical care specialist, made seven "urgent" recommendations in their letter:
"My biggest concern is that ... this is just going to get worse," Talbot told CBC News Network on Sunday.
Of those eligible, 73.4 per cent Alberta's population is fully vaccinated, representing 62.4 per cent of the province's total population.
Talbot said the amount of still-unvaccinated people is enough to be causing what Alberta hospitals are seeing right now. Vaccines are not available to children under 12.
"[People] are being denied things like chemotherapy, elective surgery and could eventually run into in a triage protocol where worse things happen because of how clogged up the system is," he said.
"We still have tools available to stop the spread of the virus in the community but the government is just choosing not to use them. They say they can't. The truth is, they won't."
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