Winnipeg Free Press By: Linda Silas and Darlene Jackson Posted:
Opinion
As we approach the March 11 anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, nurses across Canada are at their breaking point. We are exhausted, burned out – and angry.
Nurses are on the front lines of the pandemic and our health-care system every day. We see its problems in brutal detail and we have the experience to know what’s needed. We have repeatedly called on decision-makers to address critical staffing shortages and provide basic protections to keep workers safe.
We continue to be disregarded, and the result has been devastating.
WINNIPEG Wash all hospital laundry onsite - that is the recommendation from one researcher who found the virus that causes COVID-19 could last up to three days on some fabrics. Using three textiles most commonly found in the health-care arena – 100 per cent cotton, polycotton, and 100 per cent polyester – microbiologist Katie Laird tested how long the virus lasts and the effects of different laundry treatments. Her findings have been released in a new study. Laird is an associate professor of microbiology and the head of the Infectious Disease Research Group at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K. To safely study what could happen to COVID-19 in the wash, Laird worked with a virologist and used another virus that had the same properties of survival on surfaces as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Sister Andre, a French nun, is shown at the Sainte-Catherine Laboure care facility where she resides in Toulon in southern France. Andre, who is 116 years old, has recovered after testing positive for the coronavirus in mid-January. (Submitted by David Tavella/The Associated Press)
Manitoba ER nurses say they feel abandoned by province, their own union
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Last Modified: 8:32 AM CST Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 | Updates Save to Read Later
The chairman of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority board of directors is vacating his post a week after it was revealed he went to Arizona, despite pleas from government to avoid international travel.
The chairman of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority board of directors is vacating his post a week after it was revealed he went to Arizona, despite pleas from government to avoid international travel.
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister made the announcement Monday night.
Former WRHA Board Chair Wayne McWhirter.
Last week, the
Free Press reported Wayne McWhirter had travelled south in January, against the advice of public health officials.