The year 2020 has already been full of woe, but Dr. Joe Vipond fears the worst is yet to come in Alberta. "There's a deep, dark sense of foreboding," Vipond said of the mood at the Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, where he works as an emergency room physician. Many have been calling for weeks for a "circuit-breaker" lockdown — relatively short and severe — to slow the spread of the virus. She is a developmental biologist and independent researcher who has been tracking Alberta's COVID-19 data closely. Gasperowicz correctly predicted in October that, given the trajectory in Alberta's COVID-19 spread at the time, the province would be seeing 1,000 new cases per day by mid-November.

Source: CBC News November 24, 2020 10:00 UTC