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Officials with AHS and provincial Occupational Health and Safety visited the worksite that employs about 1,000 people last Sunday to assess the situation there, said Williamson.
Steps are being taken to ensure the workplace remains safe amid the outbreak, including sending home symptomatic employees who are also tested, he said. Construction continued on the Calgary Cancer Centre on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Photo by Gavin Young/Postmedia
“If a workplace is on outbreak, staff can continue to work as long as the workplace is not closed, and the staff have not been identified as a close contact of a confirmed case, and are not symptomatic,” said Williamson.
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When COVID-19 first took hold around the world, Calgary teen Kaiya Gamble took to calling her mother and father her “pandemic parents.”
Her mother, Mardelle is an emergency room physician. Her dad, Fraser, flies an air rescue helicopter for STARS. It was an affectionate nickname, of course. But Kaiya admits it was also one that came with a good deal of anxiety in those first few months as she watched them head to the frontlines.
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Albertans living with cancer may soon have new treatment options as CAR T-cell therapy began last month at the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary.
A clinical trial to develop a made-in-Alberta CAR T-cell therapy is also underway at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton according to Alberta Health Services.
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“Alberta’s government is excited to offer this innovative treatment in our province, providing Albertans who urgently need this care with timely and convenient access here at home,” said Minister of Health Tyler Shandro.