{"id":14255,"date":"2020-05-10T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=14255"},"modified":"2020-05-17T23:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:38:55","slug":"nova-scotias-re-opening-plan-is-should-be-low-and-slow-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/nova-scotias-re-opening-plan-is-should-be-low-and-slow-says-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia\u2019s re-opening plan is should be \u2018low and slow,\u2018 says expert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With fewer and fewer active cases every day, many residents of Nova Scotia are eager to get back outside. On Friday, Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang discussed the details of a leaked re-opening plan for businesses, but experts are warning residents not to get too excited just yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn medicine, we often talk a lot about start low and go slow, and that\u2019s not the exception in the pandemic,\u201d says Dr. Lisa Barrett, infectious disease scientist with the QEII hospital and assistant professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barrett tells NEWS 95.7\u2019s The Todd Veinotte Show that despite seeing fewer cases outside long-term care homes, the long incubation period of COVID-19 means we should wait several more weeks before thinking about returning to normal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith this kind of virus, it may take up to 14 days for it to incubate. Maybe shorter, maybe a little longer,\u201d Barrett explains. \u201cBut sometimes the highest amounts of virus you might have are very early around that time when you\u2019re just getting symptoms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of this, Barrett thinks there are likely 10 times the amount of diagnosed cases that go undiagnosed, and could cause quick spread.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat every time that one person who may not know they\u2019re infected, may infect another person, that can go pretty quickly way up way fast,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

The doctor thinks so far, Nova Scotia has done a pretty good job of maintaining social distancing and doing things like washing hands and wearing masks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat the data from Nova Scotia suggests that we continue to move down, down, down in our daily case numbers and in our hospitalizations,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comparing Nova Scotia to other provinces and even countries around the world, Barrett thinks the province\u2019s public health system has managed to deal with the curve of COVID-19 cases without getting overwhelmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a little early to just open things up yet but we\u2019re headed in the right direction. I think the empirical data is that we had a curve that went up at the right speed that we can handle. It peaked out and it\u2019s starting to come down,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the coming weeks, Barrett says she hopes to see more details of a plan for re-opening in several phases.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Public Health Agency of Canada, and Dr. Strang and McNeil on Friday put forward the basis of a plan that makes really good sense to me,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Nova Scotians, who currently still have about 200 active cases in the province, Barrett says it\u2019s too early to ease restrictions yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI know people want to go back to normal. The normal of say, December of this year. That kind of normal\u2019s not going to happen for a while, and I think we can all just kind of say yup, we\u2019ve got it, that normal\u2019s not happening for a while,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when they do, she insists they need to start small.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be at first low-level interactions with five people or more as a good place to start,\u201d Barrett explains. \u201cBefore we start talking about large gatherings and large institutions opening where we would not be able to control things as carefully.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And before the \u201cnormal\u201d of last year returns, Barrett says more widespread immunity would need to occur, whether it\u2019s from virus exposure or getting a vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to figure out that part of the science of the virus,\u201d says Barrett. \u201cHow much immunity we\u2019re going to have, and we have to get more people exposed over time slowly, not in a rapid manner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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With fewer and fewer active cases every day, many residents of Nova Scotia are eager to get back outside. On Friday, Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang discussed the details of a leaked re-opening plan for businesses, but experts are warning residents not to get too excited just yet. \u201cIn medicine, we often talk…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120,162,161,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15340,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14255\/revisions\/15340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}