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High COVID transmission levels in Sask. could continue for months: epidemiologist

High COVID transmission levels in Sask. could continue for months: epidemiologist

CBC
Saturday, April 16, 2022 1:11 AM GMT

High levels of COVID-19 transmission in Saskatchewan could likely go on "for months," according to an epidemiologist and official with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA).

Saskatchewan reached a near-record 403 COVID hospitalizations as of Wednesday, the last available data in the province's weekly report released on Thursday. The record was 410 hospitalizations in mid-February.

Of those in hospital, 25 were in intensive care — an increase from 20 last week. 

Thursday's update also showed 43.4 COVID-like illness patients were showing up per 1,000 emergency room visits.

"Without a change in people's behaviour so that we can get transmission rates down, that [level of transmission] is going to continue for months yet, which creates a very unsafe situation for people," said Dr. Cory Neudorf, an epidemiologist and the interim senior medical health officer for the SHA.

Saskatchewan was still at a high level of transmission when it became the first province to drop all COVID-19 mandates on Feb. 28, and hadn't come down from the peak of the fifth wave, Neudorf said.

Meanwhile, provinces that kept their COVID measures in place longer had their fifth wave come down more sharply, Neudorf pointed out, though the sixth wave is ramping up in those provinces, driven by the more transmissible BA.2 variant.

"The issue is if they reintroduce those restrictions, they can bring that wave down very, very quickly because they're starting at a lower rate," Neudorf said in an interview with CBC News.

"For us, even if we could get everybody to keep masking again, it's going to take longer to come down because we're starting at a high level."

Provinces such as Ontario and British Columbia which dropped restrictions after Saskatchewan have fewer COVID hospitalizations on a per capita basis.  

Ontario, which is about 12 times the population of Saskatchewan, reported 1,392 people in hospital with COVID on Thursday, while B.C., about four times the population of Saskatchewan, reported 364. 

Saskatchewan has more than four times as many COVID hospitalizations per capita as B.C. and nearly four times as many as Ontario, per the latest data from those provinces' respective dashboards. 

Nazeem Muhajarine, a professor of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan, said current COVID rates are "unsustainable" for the health-care system. 

"This is not a pressure on the health-care system, hospitalizations, ED [emergency department] visits that we can continue to sustain without real loss of personnel, further degradation of morale, maybe quality of care," he told CBC News on Friday.

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