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Woefully unPrEPared
Manitoba has Canada s second-highest rate of new HIV infections and the only place in the country that doesn t cover the cost of a drug that prevents the virus By: Melissa Martin | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Thursday, Jul. 22, 2021
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Four days a week, people turn out to Nine Circles Community Health Centre on Broadway, seeking HIV and STI testing.
Four days a week, people turn out to Nine Circles Community Health Centre on Broadway, seeking HIV and STI testing.
It s a chance not just to offer a test, but also key information, and it can start with nurses asking a simple but critical question.
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A new study found more Manitobans were hospitalized at a greater number than other provinces during the third wave. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
The intense pressure of COVID-19 on Manitoba’s hospital system which forced 57 critically ill patients out of province for care was greater than all its western peers, leaving officials trying to understand why.
The intense pressure of COVID-19 on Manitoba’s hospital system which forced 57 critically ill patients out of province for care was greater than all its western peers, leaving officials trying to understand why.
Last month, as the third pandemic curve was trending downward, Manitoba public health reached out to federal counterparts at the Public Health Agency of Canada with a question: Was the proportion of COVID-19 cases in Manitoba requiring hospital care greater than what was seen in other provinces?
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Stefanson responds to criticism about absence of life-and-death protocol By: Carol Sanders and Kevin Rollason | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Tuesday, May. 18, 2021 Save to Read Later
Health Minister Heather Stefanson says the province can expand to 170 ICU beds and shouldn t need a triage protocol to decide who gets a bed and who doesn t.
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If one is required, there s an ethical framework doctors can use, she said. The ethical framework was put in place to ensure that in the event that a triage protocol is needed, it is there to help doctors put that in place, Stefanson told reporters after question period Tuesday.