VANCOUVER As the number of people battling COVID-19 in B.C. hospitals continues to grow at an alarming rate, officials are urging the public to support exhausted health-care workers by staying on their best behaviour. Keeping healthy and following all existing COVID-19 restrictions are the best ways to ease the immense and growing pressure on doctors, nurses and others in the health-care system, Dr. Bonnie Henry said Thursday. Last year, many people stood at their doors and windows clapping and cheering for our frontline health-care workers. We knew they were there for us and we wanted to show our appreciation, Henry said.
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Active cases and the number of monitored people have been decreasing in recent days.
Unfortunately, the number of hospitalized continue to rise.
The more cases there are in hospitals, the greater the chance that those seeking medical treatment for reasons other than COVID-19 will also be impacted as the healthcare system including medical services and staff, becomes increasingly stretched thin.
B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, Health Minister Adrian Dix, and Premier John Horgan all presented information at yesterday’s briefing about concerns about the high level of COVID-19 hospitalizations.