The number of positive cases for COVID-19 and the increase in hospitalizations in recent weeks show that Quebec has not reached “living with the virus”, believes retired virologist Jacques Lapierre.
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“You have to be careful because learning to live with the virus today means accepting load shedding, accepting that there are 7,000 people in the hospital environment who do not show up for work because they have the COVID. It is to accept that there are many employers in several circles who lack employees because these people are sick, ”he said in an interview with LCN.
“I think that we have not reached the point where we can accept living with the virus”, adds Mr. Lapierre.
For him, the hospitalizations which “increase at a higher level than in wave one and wave two” and the cases which increase “even if there are very, very few tests which are done” are signs that the situation is not completely under control.
“When they do the tests, there is more than 15% positivity. So there are a lot of cases, because the WHO speaks that you have to be below 5% to say that you are under control”, supports the virologist.
Listen to the full interview in the video above.
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