VANCOUVER In the wake of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control updating its public messaging to acknowledge aerosol spread of COVID-19, calls are growing for a change in public messaging. The province’s top doctor, however, is downplaying the significance of airborne spread of the coronavirus. On Tuesday, the BCCDC tweeted a link to its website with the caption that the virus “spreads from a person with COVID-19 to others through larger droplets and smaller droplets known as aerosols.” The acknowledgement comes two weeks after Vancouver Coastal Health quietly changed its website less than 24 hours after a CTV News Vancouver story highlighting the outdated information about airborne transmission on the site. While there has been widespread scientific consensus for months that COVID is airborne, the health authority’s website still said “there is no reported evidence of airborne transmission” until after CTV News pointed it out.
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Posted Apr 26, 2021 11:30 am PDT
Diana Law is being remembered as a caring and attentive nurse. She is believed to be B.C.s first nurse to die of COVID-19. (Photo submitted)
Summary
A Surrey woman is believed to be the first nurse in B.C. to die of COVID-19
Diana Law is being remembered as an attentive care giver who was hoping to retire in a year
Law spent months in the hospital battling the virus
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A Surrey woman, believed to be B.C.’s first nurse to die from complications of COVID-19, is being remembered as an attentive nurse who spent her life caring for others.
COVID-19: Overworked B.C. nurses âemotionally traumatizedâ by third wave, and âitâs only gotten worseâ Head of B.C. Nurses Union says an estimated 60 per cent of nurses in the province showing âserious emotional distress leading up to early signs of PTSDâ
Author of the article: Kevin Griffin
Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021  â¢Â 2 hours ago  â¢Â 4 minute read  â¢Â âEvery nurse tells me theyâre exhausted,â says Christine Sorensen, president of the B.C. Nurses Union. âMany of these nurses are emotionally traumatized. They have seen, particularly in long-term care, more people die in a short period of time than they have ever seen in their career.â Photo by Jason Payne /PNG files