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Who needs a COVID Misery Index, now that things are looking up? By Alan Freeman. Published on Jul 15, 2021 5:43pm If Canada had decided to act like Texas and Florida, ignore the virus and let the good times roll, we would have scored higher. Nurse Lindsey Hornblower gives Avril Hassett her COVID-19 shot at the West End Recreation Centre on Tuesday, March 16. Jessica Lovell/Metroland
What do you do with a Misery Index when people aren’t feeling miserable anymore?
That’s the dilemma facing the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, which concocted a Global COVID Misery Index four months ago to track how well Canada was doing in the fight against COVID-19, compared to 14 other advanced economies.
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Some Edmonton doctors decry province’s reopening plan Dr. James Talbot, co-chair of the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association strategic COVID committee. Postmedia, file
Two Edmonton doctors are raising red flags about the speed at which Alberta plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions.
On Wednesday, Premier Jason Kenney announced a three-stage reopening plans based on vaccination rates and hospitalization levels that could see almost all of the province’s COVID-19 restrictions removed by late June or early July.
Dr. James Talbot, a former Alberta chief medical officer of health and co-chair of the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association’s (EZMSA) pandemic committee, called the province’s plan “reckless” and “unsafe” and predicted a spike in cases as a result of restrictions lifting that quickly.