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COVID-19 in Alberta: When the worst-case scenario happens

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What's the Worse Case Scenario?

In maywe saw a very steep and relatively quick decline in infection rates. That caused hospital admissions to level off. Was different now is that the province let infections sky rocket for longer without stepping in. And you'll probably, more importantly, let hospital numbers increase longer without stepped in. We don't know what the upper upper limit is, but we know that there's a lot of fear that we could hit it. Amean alberta heall's services ar y, scrambling to increase capacity and asking other provinces to both take patients from alberta and also send front line staff. The federal government has offered ventilator.

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