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02.10.2021 / 21:13

Doctors urge Albertans to demand government release COVID-19 modelling

COVID-19 modelling that is guiding its pandemic-related decisions.In a letter dated Oct. 1, Alberta’s former chief medical officer of health Dr.

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‘We need to act now’: Former Alberta chief medical officer reiterates dire situation

Dr. James Talbot, Alberta’s former chief medical officer of health, joins Joel Senick to discuss the province’s new pandemic protocols and the pressure hospitals will be under in the weeks ahead.

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What happens when COVID-19 patients take up all surgery, ICU capacity in Alberta?

Alberta Health Services has had to postpone a number of elective surgeries across the province in an effort to respond to COVID-19 activity.Postponing these procedures means recovery beds can be converted to ICU beds and health-care workers can be redeployed from surgeries to the ICU, but what happens when there aren’t any elective surgeries left to postpone?Both Dr. James Talbot and Dr.

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Alberta’s former top doctor significantly concerned with plan to lift COVID-19 rules

Alberta’s former chief medical officer of health, Dr. James Talbot, joined Global News at Noon to share his take on the province removing almost all COVID-19 safeguards.

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COVID-19: Doctors’ group concerned about Calgary Stampede, major corporate partner won’t take part

Calgary Stampede getting the conditional green light to go ahead amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, some are concerned the event could become one of the greatest superspreaders of the novel coronavirus that the province has ever seen.In an open letter to Premier Jason Kenney on Thursday, the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association, which includes Alberta’s former chief medical officer of health Dr.

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Former top doctor calls Alberta’s COVID-19 reopening plan ‘aggressive to the point of recklessness’

says the province’s plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions is “aggressive to the point of recklessness” and is setting the province up for a fourth wave.“The timing is really aggressive and going to a third stage with 70 per cent (of the population vaccinated) on a single dose, in which basically the province is completely open, is irresponsible,” said Dr. James Talbot, who is the co-chair of the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association’s COVID-19 committee.“Aggressive to the point of recklessness… I’m not surprised but I’m extremely disappointed.”Earlier Wednesday, Premier Jason Kenney revealed the province’s “Open for Summer” plan, which could see the majority of public health restrictions lifted by early July.

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Alberta’s current COVID-19 status worse than every province and state: Former top doctor

COVID-19 pandemic, Alberta is heading in the wrong direction.The province reported more than 2,000 daily cases for three consecutive days last week, reaching the highest single-day total since the start of the pandemic on Saturday, at 2,433, with a positivity rate of 12 per cent.

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AHS to discuss COVID-19 triage framework with staff if faced with ‘dire situation’

COVID-19 patients overwhelm the system.This meeting comes as the province is in the midst of a third wave of the pandemic.

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Alberta doctors urge province to hold off on easing COVID-19 restrictions next week

COVID-19 restrictions next week and to instead toughen measures for bars, restaurants and pubs.The plea comes from two doctors who co-chair the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association’s pandemic committee. 399 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Alberta on Thursday Dr.

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Partnership between chief medical officer, health minister ‘critical’ in emergency response: former Alberta minister

COVID-19 pandemic, but according to one former provincial health minister, the collaborative relationship between the province’s top physician and health minister is a critical part of successful emergency response.Former health minister Fred Horne, who was in office and worked closely with Dr.

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