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Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw contends that putting everyone in the same category makes schools ‘less dependent on needing a test to be a part of identifying where there is an issue.’
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EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Anyone who stays home with an illness is automatically associated with COVID and counted as being part of the outbreak, Alberta’s chief medical officer said last week.
A clip from a Thursday press conference with Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw and Alberta Health Services president and CEO Dr. Verna Yiu went viral on social media and showed Hinshaw stating how COVID cases are now determined.
The clip, posted by Ezra Levant of Rebel News, has received more than 500,000 views on Twitter. It contains an excerpt of Hinshaw’s answer to CBC reporter Janet French on what the Alberta government is doing to address COVID cases and breakthroughs in public schools.
Referring to the framework in place to manage “outbreaks” in schools, Hinshaw said, “If individuals choose to not get tested for COVID but are home with an illness, they are now counted in the list as being part of that outbreak, and so it’s less dependent on needing a test to be a part of identifying where there is an issue.”
According to Hinshaw, if there is an outbreak in an Alberta school, anyone who stays home with an illness and is associated with that outbreak through contact tracing will be counted as part of the numbers for that outbreak.
Reacting to Hinshaw’s statement made, Levant opined, “To maintain a mass psychology of panic and fear, Alberta’s corrupt public health bureaucrat now automatically counts anyone staying home from any illness as a Covid case.”
As part of Hinshaw’s answer to the same question, she said, “Large-scale transmission in schools is not common … schools are impacted by community transmission.” She added that because of privacy laws, individuals are not required to offer information on why they have stayed home from school – whether as a teacher or student – due to a respiratory illness. Since they do not need to disclose and are not required to test, it appears that anyone who does stay home when an “outbreak” is declared counts as a COVID case, even without a test.
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