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The spread may appear low in your city, but how much of that is from lack of testing? If your employees can work from home, it is best for you to implement work from home ASAP.

Businesses in Washington State have shuttered or gone to work from home over the last 3 weeks, had most businesses made this change earlier(eg: at the beginning of those 3 weeks) we would see much less spread and quicker easing of restrictions.

Is Alberta doing widespread Covid-19 testing yet? We had cases of teens with no international travel getting Covid-19 in February according to the Seattle Flu Study, there are likely more cases in Edmonton that exhibit minimal symptoms currently.

Seattle Flu Study: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...

Alberta has been testing at 1800 / million (7100 tests). For context when the US was at our point they were at 5 / million.

I was looking at the numbers for today (because I was curious about the U of A which has gone fully remote for course and exam delivery). There's a model in here https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop... that you can plug numbers into. I would say work from home though, you'll feel absolutely devastated if one of your employees falls ill and you were the cause. Trust them to do their work remotely and they will reward that trust.

Hospital ICU units are not overwhelmed which puts a limit to total infections. (unless this is now less deadly I guess, an unlike win though)

> "Hospital ICU units are not overwhelmed which puts a limit to total infections."

I wouldn't say that; reports coming out of Seattle look pretty grim.

"...Reports from the Seattle area, the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, indicate that some of the city’s hospitals are nearly overwhelmed. One hospital’s note to staff, shared with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, says the “local COVID-19 trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy.” The hospital is down to a four-day supply of gloves..."

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/14/coronavirus-hospital-wor...

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