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'If you don't think Omicron is a big deal, you are absolutely wrong'
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'If you don't think Omicron is a big deal, you are absolutely wrong'
The company that runs Nova Scotia's ambulance service says the Omicron variant is posing new challenges to the system. A flood of COVID-19 patients is causing acute bed shortages, and the inability to offload patients is tying up ambulances for hours.
Dr. Kirk Magee has been on the job for more than 22 years. He says overcrowding in Nova Scotia hospitals has now reached historic levels.
The COVID-19 pandemic's widening reach has exposed workplaces across Nova Scotia and continues to send hundreds of health-care workers and other workers into isolation.
Emergency services in many major Canadian cities are facing staffing shortages due to a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, with police, ambulance and fire all scrambling to redeploy and bolster their ranks.