[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Quebecers also got a “rude awakening,” Mâsse said, when earlier this month officials reported more than 3,100 cases in a single day, sparking public warnings from doctors who said hospitals were on the verge of rationing care.Those warnings may have shocked Quebecers into reducing their contacts, Masse explained. “It’s certain that also had an enormous impact on Quebec.” But, he added, the curfew may have also played a role in shocking Quebecers into reducing their contacts.Roxane Borges Da Silva, a public health professor at Université de Montréal who was one of the experts calling for a curfew in early January, said the measure may be having the desired effect.She.