🧵Takeaways from today's media scrum with Sask's Health Minister Paul Merriman on #COVID19SK.
The minister says you'd have to ask Dr. Shahab if we're in a fourth wave, but "we're seeing all of the signs we're entering a fourth wave."
Read more: cbc.ca/news/canada/sa… #skpoli
Sask's Health Minister Paul Merriman says if people don't want to get vaccinated, then that's their choice.
"I think you're infringing on people's personal rights if you're mandating things." #covid19sk #skpoli
Health Minister Paul Merriman says the Sask government is not changing any direction since it ended the state of emergency on July 11, which also ended all restrictions/mandates.
The province continues to rely on personal responsibility. #covid19sk #skpoli
Sask's Health Minister Paul Merriman: "I haven't seen any modelling data as of lately."
Saskatchewan continues to have the highest test-positivity rate in the country, at 9.8%, with Canada's national average at 3.9%, latest Health Canada data shows. #covid19sk #skpoli
Merriman says there's higher transmission in ppl 19 + younger. Says they're not ending up in hospital & it's impacting youth "in a very mild way"
In Sask: 3.5% of all COVID-19 hospitalizations + 1.1 % of all COVID-19 ICU admissions have been ppl 19 + younger #covid19sk #skpoli
Sask's Health Minister Paul Merriman on hospitalizations:
"Most of the people that are in hospital are unvaccinated, so I guess the question is why are they unvaccinated and ending up in the hospital? That's their choice." #covid19sk #skpoli
The Sask government held their last public #COVID19SK news conference in early July.
Today Health Minister Paul Merriman addressed this saying: "We have been updating the public." +
"We are being as transparent, available as possible."
#skpoli
Health Minister Paul Merriman says the false-positive tests in Sask are "very unfortunate" and relates it to when CBC Edmonton mistakenly reported Merriman had COVID-19 (which was corrected). He says it was very stressful.
#covid19sk #skpoli
That's the end of my takeaways, but the full media scrum will be available today in @gqinsk's story here⤵️ for those who want to hear more.
cbc.ca/news/canada/sa… #covid19sk #skpoli
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