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For 10 weeks now, doctors in New Brunswick who refused to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination have not been able to practise medicine, and an untold number of their patients are still in the lurch.
More than 4,000 New Brunswickers have responded to the province's "urgent" call last month for volunteers to help with the COVID-19 pandemic response, but so far, only about 100 have been put to work.
Fredericton resident said she couldn't access care online due to 'high demand.' But the service's co-founder says that won't be a regular occurrence, and patients should try again later.
The month of January 2022 marked the deadliest in terms of COVID-19 deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic, with 78 people succumbing to the disease.
Marti O'Connell has been trying in vain for weeks to get a booster shot for her husband, Jerry, who has been at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont Hospital in Moncton since mid-November, waiting for a nursing home bed.