Severely ill COVID-19 patients are being hospitalized in Ontario in higher numbers than ever, as the province and health-care sector scramble to increase capacity through transferring patients to other hospitals, cancelling non-essential procedures and setting up field units. (karrastock/Adobe Stock)
By Holly McKenzie-Sutter
TORONTO Nurse Manpreet Kainth knows every patient being treated under her team’s care in Humber River Hospital’s intensive care unit.
Even with her 16 years of experience, the ever-growing workload and the daily scenes unfolding before her eyes more acutely ill COVID-19 patients and young people fighting for their lives weigh heavily on her.
There is no escaping that reality even when she’s home with her family, who she tries not to burden with her worries.
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Online classes begin for many Calgary students amid rising COVID-19 rate Bowness High School in northwest Calgary on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Photo by Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia
Thousands of students in Calgary and in northern Alberta are shifting to online learning today because of rising COVID-19 infection rates.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said last week that Calgary students in grades 7 through 12 would make the move to remote classes. School divisions in Fort McMurray also announced Friday that students in those same grades would be learning from home.
LaGrange said soaring infection rates have put schools under “operational pressures,” sometimes resulting in severe staff shortages.
Health-care staff get ready to prone a 47-year-old woman who has COVID-19 and is intubated on a ventilator in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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TORONTO Nurse Manpreet Kainth knows every patient being treated under her team’s care in Humber River Hospital’s intensive care unit
Even with her 16 years of experience, the ever-growing workload and the daily scenes unfolding before her eyes – more acutely ill COVID-19 patients and young people fighting for their lives – weigh heavily on her.