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Sask. doctor calls for lockdown as COVID-19 begins pushing ICUs to the limit

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A Saskatchewan doctor is ringing the alarm bells and calling on the provincial government to implement stricter COVID-19 restrictions in order to help preserve capacity in the province’s intensive care units. 

Dr. Alex Wong, an infectious diseases doctor at Regina General Hospital, says the current state of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan is, in a word, “bad.” 

“We’re on the exact same trajectory as Alberta, you know, and we have less restrictions than Alberta, and our critical care capacity is obviously already maxed out,” Wong said. 

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“We don’t expect anything is going to change dramatically over the next … two or three weeks unless there

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-covid-19-lock-down-1.6182367?cmp=rss.

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