Twenty-one medical well being officers — docs charged with advising authorities leaders on methods to hold folks protected — wrote to Saskatchewan Well being Minister Paul Merriman final week pleading for extra restrictions to cease the unfold of COVID-19.
It was their second try. They beforehand wrote a letter in August.
“The Medical Well being Officers of Saskatchewan (MHOs) want to categorical our continued and rising concern in regards to the present state of COVID-19 in our province and the dearth of effectiveness of the present public well being measures,” it says.
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“With out additional motion, it’s extremely possible that we are going to face even greater charges of hospitalization in coming weeks and danger well being system collapse, in addition to many extra preventable deaths.”
The docs specify they don’t seem to be asking for a full lockdown or faculty closures.
Within the letter, dated Oct. 21, they ask Merriman to impose gathering restrictions on personal indoor gatherings, specifying the province ought to prohibit unvaccinated and partially vaccinated folks from gathering past their very own family for 28 days.
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Medical well being officers warned the well being care system may collapse if the Saskatchewan authorities doesn’t impose extra restrictions to cease the unfold of COVID-19.
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Medical well being officers warned the well being care system may collapse if the Saskatchewan authorities doesn’t impose extra restrictions to cease the unfold of COVID-19.
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Medical well being officers warned the well being care system may collapse if the Saskatchewan authorities doesn’t impose extra restrictions to cease the unfold of COVID-19.
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Medical well being officers warned the well being care system may collapse if the Saskatchewan authorities doesn’t impose extra restrictions to cease the unfold of COVID-19.
Additionally they write that the federal government ought to restrict capability in venues, like these used for weddings and funerals, to 25 per cent in the event that they solely require obligatory masks and never proof of vaccination.
The letter says these restrictions mustn’t apply if the venues do require proof of vaccination.
The MHOs write the province ought to require proof of vaccination in additional venues total and that extra areas mustn’t settle for proof of a detrimental take a look at.
The docs state faculties have to be made safer in an effort to hold them open.
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Additionally they ask the federal government to state clearly the seriousness of the scenario and encourage Saskatchewan residents to scale back the variety of folks with whom they’re assembly.
“We perceive that returning to those restrictions just isn’t what our inhabitants desires, or what our leaders need to ponder, however with the well being system in disaster, the options are a lot worse.”
World Information reached out to Merriman’s workplace, in addition to the well being ministry and the Saskatchewan Public Security Company, which operates the province’s COVID-19 emergency operations centre.
None had been instantly obtainable for a response.
The province has not imposed new well being pointers for the reason that letter was despatched. On Wednesday, Premier Scott Moe mentioned he wouldn’t accomplish that.
The letter was despatched after Moe introduced the province would switch ICU sufferers to Ontario.
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