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Five people in healthcare are sharing how their experiences led them to make a decision on the COVID-19 vaccine.
Healthcare workers in the prairies are sharing why they are or are not choosing to be fully vaccinated. As of one week ago, 70 per cent of all eligible healthcare workers in Manitoba such as those working in acute care facilities, laboratory testing, and emergency response services have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Two chaplains, Joan Crabtree and Danielle Morton, say they are seeing firsthand the effects of the pandemic, noticing how lonely people are. It has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, Crabtree says, calling the pandemic a flurry of changes. Crabtree, who works as a lead chaplain with Misericordia Health Centre, says despite gearing up in PPE, people are still welcoming company.
Manitoba sees another slight rise in daily COVID-19 cases, with 222 announced Friday
The number of daily COVID-19 cases announced in Manitoba went up again on Friday, after days of case counts that hovered below 200. That update came shortly after the province announced current public health orders will be extended until Jan. 22.
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Posted: Jan 08, 2021 11:08 AM CT | Last Updated: January 8
About 60 rescheduled medical procedures will be done over the next week, after many procedures were postponed due to COVID-19, Shared Health Chief Nursing Officer Lanette Siragusa said Friday.(Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse/The Associated Press)
Some postponed surgeries could happen as early as next week as Manitoba COVID-19 hospitalizations stabilize
Some surgeries postponed during the pandemic to ease the burden on Manitoba’s strained health-care system will be rescheduled starting next week as the province’s COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to stabilize.
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Posted: Jan 08, 2021 5:02 PM CT | Last Updated: January 8
Roughly 6,000 non-urgent procedures have been postponed over the last few months in Manitoba, says Shared Health Chief Nursing Officer Lanette Siragusa.(Mikaela MacKenzie/Winnipeg Free Press/The Canadian Press)
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