Posted: Apr 09, 2021 10:53 AM CT | Last Updated: April 9
Dr. Susan Shaw, the chief medical officer for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, works in intensive care wards. (CBC News) comments
The proportion of relatively younger Saskatchewan COVID-19 patients under intensive care in Regina has grown at an alarming rate in recent days, says the province s chief medical officer.
Dr. Susan Shaw of the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) tweeted new intensive care statistics for the city s hospitals on Friday morning, following a virtual town hall attended by SHA physicians on Thursday night.
Up-to-date statistics about the COVID-19 situation in Saskatchewan are usually shared among doctors during those sessions and eventually posted online by the SHA.
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Moe said his government could consider large worksites with several hundred workers moving up the priority list.
He added that the province may be able to use mobile clinics to vaccinate those workers.
But the premier maintained that we will not sacrifice the capacity of our plan. We are going to have a needle offered to everyone in this province by sometime in early June, if we continue to receive vaccines from the federal government, which I think we will.
The Saskatchewan Medical Association is critical of the plan, saying the government s refusal to immediately vaccinate essential workers, including physicians and health-care workers who have not yet received their shots, will result in more deaths and long-term illness.