COVID-19 case count in Alberta showed a decrease, and active cases also appear to be on the decline.That’s welcome news to two Alberta doctors who say it shows, at least for now, that restrictions as well as ramped up vaccinations are working to curb the province’s third wave.Dr.
Darren Markland, ICU physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, told Global News the numbers bring “a little more cautious optimism about this wave” than they did during the second wave, for a number of reasons.Markland said while Alberta has seen a significant jump in ICU admissions during the third wave of the pandemic, the patients being cared for are making a rebound faster than the elderly and higher-risk people who were admitted during the first.