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TORONTO At Humber River Hospital in Toronto, Ont., the intensive care unit is as stretched as the staff managing the COVID-19 patients filling their beds. âUnfortunately, those patients are deteriorating quickly, in many cases needing ICU resources. So our ICU is in surge capacity almost every day,â said Dr. Tasleem Nimjee, the director of Medical Innovation at Humber River and an emergency physician. As COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ontario continue to rise in tandem with record numbers of daily new cases, hospitals in the hardest hit regions are facing increasingly full ICUs, with Ornge, Canadaâs largest air ambulance fleet, transferring more patients than ever from one busy ICU to a less busy one to ease the strain on overburdened facilities.
Hospital visitation policies should reflect what loved-ones contribute to a patient s recovery
While hospitals are justified in limiting visitors to control the spread of this deadly virus, they are often doing it at a high cost to patients who need contact and support from loved ones to aid in their recovery, write Courtney Sas and Dr. Alexandra Rendely.
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Hospitals are justified in limiting visitors to control COVID-19, but must weigh the serious cost to patients
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Staff at the Peter Lougheed Centre hospital in Calgary screen essential visitors as part of COVID-19 precautions in April. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital visitation policies have fluctuated out of necessity to match the ebb and flow of the spread and severity of the virus.(Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)
Once someone is vaccinated, do they still have to wear a mask? Your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered
Now that a COVID-19 vaccine has been approved in Canada and the first shots have been given, lots of you have questions about vaccines. We talked to the experts to get you some answers.
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The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for Dec. 14.
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Posted: Dec 14, 2020 4:11 PM ET | Last Updated: December 14, 2020
With COVID-19 immunization officially underway in Canada, thinking through who should get inoculated in the next stage.
Canada Revenue Agency sends 441,000 education letters to Canadians who may have to repay pandemic CERB benefits.
Dozens of Canadian military members are on the ground to help Shamattawa First Nation in northern Manitoba deal with virus outbreak.
Canada wasn t the only country beginning its vaccination campaign on Monday. At the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., nurse Annabelle Jimenez, left, congratulates critical nurse Sandra Lindsay after Lindsay was the first in the U.S. to be inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.(Mark Lennihan/Reuters)