CALGARY --
It's been billed as a race between the variants and the vaccines and, right now in Alberta, one side has a sizeable lead.
The province currently leads the country in active COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, renewing calls for tighter public health measures.
"We need to act now," Dr. Gosia Gasperowicz, a developmental biologist, told CTV News. "What we're doing now is like a raging forest fire, and (the province is saying), 'maybe I'll put three buckets on it and see what happens'."
This week, Alberta's COVID-19 numbers climbed to heights only reached during the peak of the second wave in mid-December.