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The short, sharp “circuit-breaker” lockdowns suggested by some physicians, said Kenney, haven’t proven successful in other jurisdictions.
“I think we give people false hope, that there’s a silver bullet if we shut things down for 14 days,” he said.
But an Edmonton physician said it’s clear if those measures had been imposed six weeks earlier, “we could have had Christmas, we wouldn’t have cancelled all elective surgeries at the University of Alberta Hospital for January.”
Dr. Tehseen Ladha said relaxing the rules on family visitation sends the wrong signal to the public.
“They’re sending the message that if it’s safe to visit once, then we can see them a couple of times,” she said.
“A lot of these visits will be dinners, without masks and if they’re done with elderly parents, that creates a real risk.”
After 3,900 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine landed in the province Dec. 14, another 25,350 shots have arrived to be administered to front-line health-care workers, the sickest patients and those living in continuing care, Kenney said Tuesday.
“The arrival of these doses provides a sense of hope and relief to all of us as we start this holiday season — let it also be a motivator to respect the public-health measures in place,” said Kenney.
Of those doses, 6,825 will be delivered to both Calgary and Edmonton.
The province is also providing lockdown exemptions to those visiting massage therapists with a prescription and private counselling service clients as long as people are using PPE.
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