The recent Quebec Governmentâs extension of lockdowns and implementation of curfews to limit the spread of COVID-19 will have more harmful effects on the health and welfare of the population than benefits.
The purpose of this article written by a family physician, a business professor, and a lawyer, all based in Montreal, is to encourage the government and health care policymakers to reconsider the extension of lockdowns and the implementation of curfews and to focus instead on targeted protection based on scientific evidence, in order to improve the health and wellbeing of the population.
It is known that death from COVID-19 is about a thousand-fold higher in older people with multiple comorbidities than the young. Those who are not vulnerable should be allowed to resume life as normally as possible following safe public health measures.