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Her biggest fear, she said, is that doctors will need to triage patients should hospitalizations continue to mount.“We don’t want to have to make these decisions where we’re choosing who gets to have care or not. And we’re getting closer and closer to that every day,” Mithani said in an interview. “This is much, much worse than I think people understand,” she said. “We, as health-care workers, are telling you that things are very dire, that ICU beds are running out, that we are stretched very thin in terms of our hospital capacity.”
“They are worse than doing nothing at all because now it is going to delay the government from taking more definitive action,” Schwartz said during a panel discussion Wednesday with advocacy group Protect Our Province.Dr. Darren Markland, an intensive care physician in Edmonton who was also on the panel, said the government should consider vaccine passports and a circuit-breaker lockdown, which is a tight set of restrictions for a limited amount of time to curb ongoing transmission of COVID-19.
In the meantime, there are no signs COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are slowing. There were 647 Albertans in hospital Wednesday due to COVID-19, with 147 of those patients in intensive care. Hospitalizations jumped by 7.5 per cent from Tuesday. Another 18 people died in a 24-hour period.
It’s remarkable that more people aren’t demanding the immediate resignation of Kenney, Shandro, and Hinshaw. 4thWave Abpoli ableg
Always the fault of eternal whinners who can't respect others.
We'll see
Time for a new system in AB. AHS top dogs suck way too much money out of AHS. Collapsing this monstrous organization may be the best thing that can happen in the long run. Get rid of all the fat cats and their fat pensions.
drsusanshaw And SK is right behind you 😢😢
So the vaccines are really working for you hey? The hospitals didn’t collapse when we had no vaccine. So why now? Fear mongering.
com-plete-nonsense *we gave up on you guys and the word 'journalism' a while ago... from May... From a center wing / non-potitical point of view TamResign coronavirus covid scam fascism
Hey fucking anti-vaxxers, here you go. You already were in denial that this was happening in the US. Now it's happening here. People are going to die, and it will be because of you.
Stop worrying, Kenney and Hinshaw have a plan. They have a plan right? Oh god, please let them have a plan.
Patients with cancer, heart/vascular difficulties are being told they’ll have to wait for surgery- triage is already happening. Never do you hear an anti-vaxxer/masker say; “don’t treat me”. CMOH_Alberta supplied the narrative that masks aren’t needed.
Lies!
So what is the answer? Field hospitals? Mandatory vaccines? It seems covid is never going away…so we need to figure out out to deal/live with it.
I wonder why...
Not in Alberta the Tool shining light of Canada gov’t
In other words the same warning they’ve been giving for 18 months to justify nonstop lockdowns and restrictions.
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