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COVID-19 numbers in London-Middlesex have been pretty encouraging. This is the 7th straight day with 3 or fewer new cases. Last time that happened? March 18th. We were at 5 TOTAL cases then. Our 7-day rolling total is 9 cases. Last time we had a total that low? March 19th. 1/
Huge credit goes to the contact tracers at @MLHealthUnit who have clearly done amazing work to find transmission patterns, to those working at assessment centres, to everyone who worked to get our LTC situation under control, and to those Londoners who have behaved themselves. 2/
Now here's the cool part. We get to turn back the clock. Pretend it's March 18th again. Knowing everything we know would follow from that date, is there anything we would do differently? And we have a few built-in advantages too. We have testing and tracing capacity. 3/
LTC is organized far better than it was on March 18th. Working against us is the fact that distancing won't be as guaranteed not being in lockdown. So what is one thing we could do to change our potential trajectory from today forward, knowing risk of spread is still there? 4/
Not to beat a dead horse, but it's masks. It's one thing that we have learned more about, and may actually give us a bit of benefit. So please, let's not fritter away this second chance locally by rejecting such a benign intervention. 5/
