Vaughn Palmer: Cautionary notes as more B.C. businesses allowed to reopen
It was Henry herself who first flagged contact rates, expressed as a percentage of pre-pandemic levels, as the way to measure B.C.’s success at self-isolation and physical distancing.
“We want to stay somewhere around 50 to 60 per cent,” she told reporters. “We know if we do that, we are likely to have low numbers of cases over time and not to have any exponential growth in our trajectory here in B.C..” Still, there was no denying that the modelling suggested that B.C. had reached the upper limit of a safe rate of contacts.
Some new cases are inevitable. But where they do appear, prompt contact tracing is critically important. “We need to find 75 per cent of contacts within one to three days to be able to effectively control the epidemic,” said Henry.Article content continued“Until we have the ability to protect the population from this virus, either through an effective treatment or a vaccine, we have to find a balance that’s going to keep people from getting sick in large numbers.
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