Doctors are sounding the alarm on overcrowding of children’s hospitals in Quebec as some patients have to be transferred to ICUs hundreds of kilometres away. Children are coming in with respiratory viruses, like the flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
A lot more kids are heading to emergency rooms with symptoms of RSV so this week we're sharing what you should know about RSV. Dr. Fatima Kakkar, an infectious diseases pediatrician at Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital, shares what parents should know about the virus.
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In today's Morning Brief, the latest federal numbers show, as of Oct. 9, 6.5 per cent of kids under five received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while one per cent received two doses. That's significantly lower than the rest of the population.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that a Montreal children s hospital can permanently remove a breathing tube from a five-year-old who has been in a coma since June.