Alberta Health added Total Variants Active to their data:
Total ACTIVE variant cases
Cumulative Variant cases
New cases
Active cases
Total confirmed
Searched to find reopening criteria as the reopening threshold is not maintained between Phase 1 & 2 as demonstrated:
Mar 1, 2021 - announce Phase 2 reopen 1560 cases (is the threshold below 1600 cases?)
Mar 8, 2021 - Phase 2 reopening 1594 cases (if it’s going back up wouldn’t you pause?)
Apr 7, 2021 - Phase 1 return cases over 5000
It is unclear whether the threshold is around 1600 or 5000, or what it is based on. Search did not turn up clear criteria.
Alberta predictably prevents itself from reaching zero covid by reopening & maintaining spread.
Some great articles about how the mitigation (maintaining spread) strategy compares to the zero covid strategy, and how the zero covid strategy is healthier for the economy. It also has shorter lockdowns which do not require masks once everything reopens – even the anti-maskers would be happy about this.
Canada Is One Big Pandemic Response Experiment.
It Proves ‘Zero COVID’ Is Best
Concludes major French study scanning nations
Those that chose to aggressively eliminate covid19 — China, Australia, Atlantic Canada and others — experienced less social and economic deterioration than those that didn’t.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/04/02/Canada-One-Big-Pandemic-Response-Experiment-Zero-COVID
Aiming for zero Covid-19 to ensure economic growth
Eliminating Covid-19 is the cheapest path towards economic recovery.
adopt an elimination strategy that is not solely based on vaccination.
China, Australia, Cambodia, Iceland, New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Laos, and Thailand have followed an elimination strategy.
The medical and economic arguments for an elimination strategy are overwhelming.
https://voxeu.org/article/aiming-zero-covid-19-ensure-economic-growth