Chris Selley: Alberta's COVID plan is bold, but that doesn't make it crazy
“The medical community is being completely gaslighted right now,” an Edmonton doctor complained.A rare voice of support came from south of the border: “I think Alberta is taking reasonable steps in the face of having done a good job of bringing the viral numbers down, and in the face of good vaccine coverage,” Dr. Sarah Fortune, chair of the immunology and infectious diseases department at Harvard University’s T.H.
As for the Walt Disney Company caring more about children than the Alberta government, Hinshaw noted that more children were admitted to ICU during the province’s last flu season than have been for COVID-19. She might have added that Florida is currently seeing 66 new cases per 100,000 per day, California 20, and Alberta three.Article content
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