Experts are warning that there is not enough testing, tracing or information for Canada to be properly equipped to deal with a second wave of COVID-19 infections.
to a number that could be cared for within the existing capacity of the health-care system.
"We need to gather more information, we need to do adequate testing in our communities, we have to do more contact tracing, and ultimately we have to do serologic testing," Buchman said.
This has not happened in Canada, but federal officials have said they are looking at dozens of options. While the actual testing and tracing work will be carried out by provincial governments, Trudeau said Thursday that Ottawa isThe lack of a contact tracing system is only one problem, though. Dr.
It is also possible that a second wave will be easier to notice and respond to in some parts of the country than in others.
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