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Winnipeg Free Press By: Katie May and Michael Pereira | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2021
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On Tuesday, Manitoba recorded its highest daily new COVID-19 case count in nearly three months: 211.
In as little as 10 days, that number could double and 400 cases each day could overwhelm the health-care system, based on what happened in fall 2020, says Dr. Anand Kumar, attending ICU physician at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. We re on the cusp of a major wave again, and I think that short of extremely tight restrictions, it s going to be difficult to stop it, Kumar says.
Dr. Anand Kumar, attending ICU physician at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, has criticized pandemic responses that don’t adopt a COVID Zero philosophy as a way to focus on locking down to keep case counts low and easily contact-traceable. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press files)
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