{"id":21608,"date":"2021-05-28T04:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T07:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=21608"},"modified":"2021-05-28T04:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T07:25:04","slug":"public-health-uses-number-of-indicators-in-determining-gathering-limits-dr-strang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=21608","title":{"rendered":"Public health uses number of indicators in determining gathering limits: Dr. Strang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> The chief medical officer of health said it\u2019s not just a single number public health looks for when determining if they can ease COVID-19 restrictions to allow for large gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the May 25 COVID-19 briefing, Dr. Robert Strang was asked by The Laker News what number of new cases public health would need to see to allow for an increase in gathering limits to the 250\u2013500-person range for outdoor sporting events, such as weekly racing events or school prom events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here is video of our question on gathering limits at the 1:31 mark<\/strong>. <em>Video edited by Dagley Media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pat Healey from The Laker News on the NS COVID-19 Update (05-25-2021)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6nbCkfrDhZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a number of epidemiologic indicators that we look for, along with our vaccine uptake,\u201d said Dr. Strang. \u201cI think knowing what we know about the virus, and how it is spread most easily when you bring large numbers of people together, often in close contact with each other, often indoors, I\u2019ve said many times and in public health across the country, people are saying the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLarge gatherings especially indoors are probably going to be one of the last things we\u2019ll be able to safely bring back. That\u2019s likely into the fall when we have a high level of uptake with two doses of vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;123&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;] HALIFAX: The chief medical officer of health said it\u2019s not just a single number public health looks for when determining if they can ease COVID-19 restrictions to allow for large gatherings. At the May 25 COVID-19 briefing, Dr. Robert Strang was asked by The Laker News what number of new cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[2150,983,2197,4,1231,561],"class_list":["post-21608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-dr-robert-strang","tag-large-gatherings","tag-lhs","tag-racing","tag-scotia-speedworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}