Manitoba s 3rd wave exceeding worst-case projections for intensive care patient numbers, daily COVID-19 cases
Daily COVID-19 case counts and the number of patients with the illness ending up in intensive care units in Manitoba are exceeding the province s most extreme projected scenarios for the third wave.
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Posted: May 14, 2021 1:09 PM CT | Last Updated: May 14
The number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Manitoba has seen a sharp uptick in recent weeks.(Mikaela MacKenzie/Winnipeg Free Press/The Canadian Press)
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Saskatoon ICU nurse Andrea Kosloski smiles under her face mask after getting the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after Christmas. She s expecting her second dose on Jan. 18.(Andrea Kosloski)
When Andrea Kosloski got called in to get the COVID-19 vaccine, the intensive care nurse had to stop herself from sprinting into the Saskatoon hospital room. I was so excited. It s just that snippet of hope in a very, very long year, she said.
Kosloski is one of roughly 7,000 people to receive at least one dose of vaccine in Saskatchewan so far, most of them health-care workers. Nationally, about 320,000 doses have been administered, according to this tracker.
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A front line stretched thin: Health Sciences Centre, a battle-tested Winnipeg hospital, is coping with the revolving door of sick COVID-19 patients who keep coming
A front line stretched thin
Winnipeg s Health Sciences Centre offered a glimpse inside its fight against COVID-19. We saw an already-full hospital coping with sick patients who keep on coming.
By Ian Froese
December 17, 2020
A health-care worker grips the door frame and peers into a room where one of Winnipeg s sickest COVID-19 patients is fighting for her life. Is she OK in there? she asks.
The patient, who is unconscious on a ventilator, will need more sedation, a colleague says.