Health care
Don’t avoid going to the ER because of pandemic, Canadians urged
Avoiding or postponing a trip to the ER can result in grave repercussions, CIHI said in an email to CTV News this week, pointing to data collected during the first half of 2020 and released in November. Many patients who finally did go to the ER for care may have been sicker and needed greater interventions, the institute noted.
This is the set up; the punch line is the next post.
Ontario Doctors Being Asked To Prepare For ICU Triage Scenario
Earlier this week, the co-chair of the province’s COVID-19 health science table said if things don’t change, doctors will be forced to make some tough choices.
Now, it looks like they’re already preparing for that.
Michael Garron Hospital’s Dr. Michael Warner told CBC News that doctors are being asked to prepare to have to make choices between who gets care, and who doesn’t.
Quebec’s COVID-19 curfew challenged by health experts, advocates
Government should address sites of outbreaks instead of stripping away freedoms, Ligue des droits says.
One third of Ontario’s long-term care homes experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks
According to provincial data, 207 of the 626 long-term care homes in Ontario are currently experiencing outbreaks of the virus, including 19 new ones reported Sunday.
The CEO of the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, which represents nearly 70 per cent of homes in the province, says the rising number of outbreaks is pushing the system to its limits.
Fauci Admits He Lied About Covid-19 Herd Immunity Threshold
Fauci an epidemiologist who is had of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease is revered as a hero by mainstream media outlets and Democrat politicians
His intentional deception involved estimates about what percentage of the population would need to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity against the virus and enable a return to normalcy.
How Many Coronavirus Patients Actually Died Because of Unnecessary Sedation and Intubation?
There will at some point be a reckoning, if only historical, for the horrifying mishandling of the pandemic, not by President Trump, as the media insists, but by the experts. The push to secure hospitals managed to wreck the finances of many medical facilities, force infected patients into nursing homes resulting in massive deaths in long term care facilities, alongside this medieval mistreatment of hospitalized coronavirus patients.
Alberta doctor on rising COVID-19 hospitalizations: ‘We’ll not be able to treat all patients’
Nephrologist Dr. Branko Braam says the situation has become so dire, his hospital has had to open a COVID-19 ward and health-care staff who have never worked in that type of unit are having to step in and help treat patients.
AMA Lied – How Many Died?
The American Medical Association has been adamantly against hydroxychloroquine as a therapeutic for COVID for the past year. Just a few days before the presidential election they reversed course, reversing their opposition. Did they suddenly realize HCQ might have benefit in certain patient groups or were they lying for the past year? How many individuals died as a result of being denied potential lifesaving treatment?
h/t Mom
We Don’t Know if COVID Vaccines Are Safe
Last week, the Canadian government refused to tell the public whether it had granted legal immunity to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers. Health Canada said it couldn’t release “details of its contracts due to confidentiality clauses.”
On Monday, this changed. A cabinet minister has now acknowledged that pharmaceutical companies will be protected from lawsuits in the event that Canadians are harmed.
2 Ontario LTC operators got $157M in COVID-19 aid. They also paid $74M to shareholders
Two of the largest long-term care providers in the Toronto area have received more than $157 million in federal and provincial COVID-19 relief while also paying out tens of millions of dollars in dividends to their shareholders.
Study: Black Americans in NYC up to 40% less likely to suffer severe COVID-19
While Black and Hispanic people in New York City are were more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this year, a new study shows White people are more likely to have severe disease or die from the coronavirus.
OMG they capitalized “white”! Triggered!