Davidson proposes current COVID restrictions continue beyond 2022

 

A member of the medical profession says current restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 should be adopted for at least another year.

 

Winston Davidson, Professor at the School of Public Health at UTech, says the suggestion is based on his analysis of the results of measures imposed since last year.

 

Professor Davidson believes that in order for the measures to be effective they should continue beyond 2022. 

 

"What works with us is what we should apply. In other words, over the past four weeks, we have seen the times when the curfews took place, we have seen the response of the virus and the infection - the morbidity and the mortality - come right back down, and so if that works, don't change it because you have to put in place what works for the next year and a half," he asserted.   

 

Professor Davidson is in agreement with the restrictions for public holidays and weekends.

 

He considers the measures a "self-induced quarantine" and argued that Jamaicans have to "start to understand that we don't produce the vaccine, we don't have any and the only measures that we have are measures that we know work."

 

He is optimistic that the measures will yield results. 

 

 

 

Professor Davidson also said he has seen very encouraging scientific signs that the elegant corridor concept has been a success.

 

He disclosed that some of it is being documented for academic purposes.

 

"I am convinced that we have something there that is best practice...and I have to find out what it is that we are doing right in that corridor and what it is that the Ministry of Tourism is doing right as far as the tourism industry is concerned," he said.