Why because tourism, restaurant and hospitality businesses are trying to stay open right now.? Easy to say when your non-essential lodge is done it's season.
I would love to see how your opinion would change if this was beginning of your season, and accommodations were going to be shut down again. Think of other businesses right now man seriously rather than your own.
the rationale is that she 'needs' that job to pay the rent and her bills, but she 'wants' to eat out with friends but doesn't need to for living day to day. Thats the key distinction in how the government approaches this.
If this was the deadly virus that going to wipe us all out this would not be allowed to happen.
Again, does not make any sense that all this staff and be there not vaccinated(not saying they all are) serving everyone but can’t go back to eat themselves
Why because tourism, restaurant and hospitality businesses are trying to say stay open right now.? Easy to say when your non-essential lodge is done it's season.
I would love to see how your opinion would change if this was beginning of your season, and accommodations were going to be shut down again. Think of other businesses in man seriously than your own.
Oh, I do think of other business, hence my posts about getting them to be able to stay open and all can go to them
Not sure where you get the idea my business is seasonal? I am open year round and depend on all travellers essential and none essential to feed my family and keep the lights on
Just so you know, all of us in the restaurant and hospitality industry over the last two years had ZERO certainty that we would be able to operate our businesses
This has not changed my opinion on whether or not someone should have the choice to jab themselves or not
This should be a personal choice
And as we have seem and heard, you can be double vaccinated and still end up in a bad place being infected by both unvaccinated and double vaccinated people.
If this was the deadly virus that going to wipe us all out this would not be allowed to happen.
Again, does not make any sense that all this staff and be there not vaccinated(not saying they all are) serving everyone but can’t go back to eat themselves
it does make sense - its about rights. The right to be employed is stronger than the right to go out and have a meal with friends. Alternatively, they shut all the restaurants down and they all go back on cerp again. Sorry, keep em working - enough with the government handouts where it isn't necessary.
it does make sense - its about rights. The right to be employed is stronger than the right to go out and have a meal with friends. Alternatively, they shut all the restaurants down and they all go back on cerp again. Sorry, keep em working - enough with the government handouts where it isn't necessary.
The U.S. government said on Friday it had confirmed the world's first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease.The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported infections of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in wild white-tailed deer in the state of Ohio, according to a statement.
The USDA has previously reported COVID-19 in animals including dogs, cats, tigers, lions, snow leopards, otters, gorillas and minks.
Worldwide, most animal infections were reported in species that had close contact with a person with COVID-19, according to the agency.
The U.S. government says it has confirmed the world's first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease.
Oh, I do think of other business, hence my posts about getting them to be able to stay open and all can go to them
Not sure where you get the idea my business is seasonal? I am open year round and depend on all travellers essential and none essential to feed my family and keep the lights on
Just so you know, all of us in the restaurant and hospitality industry over the last two years had ZERO certainty that we would be able to operate our businesses
This has not changed my opinion on whether or not someone should have the choice to jab themselves or not
This should be a personal choice
And as we have seem and heard, you can be double vaccinated and still end up in a bad place being infected by both unvaccinated and double vaccinated people.
Oh, I do think of other business, hence my posts about getting them to be able to stay open and all can go to them
Not sure where you get the idea my business is seasonal? I am open year round and depend on all travellers essential and none essential to feed my family and keep the lights on
Just so you know, all of us in the restaurant and hospitality industry over the last two years had ZERO certainty that we would be able to operate our businesses
This has not changed my opinion on whether or not someone should have the choice to jab themselves or not
This should be a personal choice
And as we have seem and heard, you can be double vaccinated and still end up in a bad place being infected by both unvaccinated and double vaccinated people.
Make sure you are fully vaccinated before traveling to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza. Unvaccinated travelers should avoid nonessential travel to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza.
Make sure you are fully vaccinated before traveling to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza. Unvaccinated travelers should avoid nonessential travel to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza.
not really - its no secret that you can still get covid when fully vaccinated, the key is staying out of hospital. Death rate for unvax is 7x that of vax there even with the older population having been double vaxxed the longest in the world and it being known to fade in effectiveness after first several months.
Make sure you are fully vaccinated before traveling to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza. Unvaccinated travelers should avoid nonessential travel to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza.
Make sure you are fully vaccinated before traveling to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza. Unvaccinated travelers should avoid nonessential travel to Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza.
Overburdened Red Deer hospital forced to airlift COVID-19 patients to Calgary, Edmonton
Sep 15, 2021
Critically ill patients are being airlifted out of Red Deer Regional Hospital as doctors and nurses from its various departments are recruited to care for patients on ventilators due to spiking COVID-19 cases in central Alberta.
COVID hospitalizations in Red Deer have jumped 62 per cent (from 83 to 134) and ICU admissions are up 31 per cent (from 16 to 21) in the week from Sept. 7 to Sept. 14.
"Nothing like this has happened before. We're on the precipice of not being able to provide appropriate care to people," said Dr. Mike Weldon, an emergency room physician at the central Alberta hospital, which had been battling bed shortages for years prior to the pandemic.
"Over the weekend, sick patients that needed ventilators that normally would have stayed here are being shipped out to Calgary because we don't have any room left."
According to Alberta Health Services (AHS), 24 patients have been sent from the central zone to Calgary and Edmonton because of COVID capacity issues since Sept. 1.
CBC News asked AHS for a response to the situation in the facility, and while it did provide data, it has not yet provided a comment.
"The world is falling apart around these people. First they're told you have COVID … and then you're told you have COVID but you're really, really sick — you need intensive care. And then you're told you're … going to be transferred to Edmonton or Calgary," said internal medicine specialist Dr. Kym Jim.
"You see people on phones. You see people calling family. You see people trying to gather people from afar. The stress on everyone is palpable."
And it is unclear how long other hospitals will have capacity to accept Red Deer's critically ill patients.
"What is going to happen when a person comes to Red Deer and Edmonton or Calgary tells us we no longer can take your patient? Where is that patient going to go?" said Jim.
Twelve additional "surge" beds have already been added to the intensive care unit in Red Deer, doubling its size.
As of Tuesday afternoon the unit was caring for 21 COVID patients.
Patients are being double bunked in the ICU, the coronary care unit is being used as overflow, and nurses from other departments — including labour and delivery — are now treating intensive care patients.
"Would you or your loved one accept care in an ICU that was staffed by labour and delivery nurses with minimal training on looking after this level of acuity? That is triage. That is rationing care," said Weldon.
"Just because we're not shipping people out of province doesn't mean that we're not severely strained because of our capacity. In terms of the critical care that's provided, it's degraded."
'It's frightening'
The ICU is so stretched, according to Weldon, staff in the emergency room are preparing to care for critically ill patients on ventilators, when there is nowhere else to put them.
"We're worried … that we're going to get ventilated patients in our department because that's the only other place that they can go," he said.
"It's frightening, right? I literally came from the other room … and our nurses are reviewing their training on how to work a ventilator. Like that's where we're at here."
Red Deer intensive care specialist Dr. Adam Hall said staff are working to the point of exhaustion to care for the ever-growing number of very sick and dying patients.
"We've hit the limit for what we can safely manage," said Hall. "I worry that as that system gets strained, the outcomes for patients are going to be worse."
According to Hall, patients are being kept on the regular wards longer than usual because there is no room in the ICU.
"Patients are coming in probably a little later than they would otherwise. We're trying to keep them on the floor as long as we possibly can. And once they don't require any ICU , they're going out very early, even if they are still quite ill."
AHS said patients are not currently being airlifted out of the province.
But Weldon said out-of-province transfers are likely imminent. And he believes the AHS critical triage protocol — designed to help doctors make decisions about who gets life-saving care when there aren't enough ventilators and ICU beds for everyone who needs them — will likely be invoked soon as well.
"It's almost inevitable given the trajectory of cases and the delay we know between the number of diagnosed cases and the severe outcomes when they start showing up on our doorstep," Weldon said.
"We have a choice as a province … and we've had nothing but absent leadership and, I would argue, mishandling of the entire situation."
Alberta reported 1,434 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, out of 11,880 tests.
Provincewide, there are 822 people being treated in hospital, 212 of whom were in intensive care beds. Of those not in ICU, 74.1 per cent were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, as of Friday. Of those in ICU, 91.2 per cent were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.
There are 18,265 active cases across Alberta, the highest count in the country.
Saskatchewan plans to increase ICU beds as COVID cases climb
Sep 13, 2021
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is preparing to treat a larger number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients in the province.
"The more transmissible delta variant has resulted in increasing pressures on Saskatchewan hospitals at a much faster rate than previous COVID surges, drastically increasing ICU occupancy and hospitalizations due to COVID in the last month," the SHA said in a news release.
In the days and weeks ahead, the SHA has set a target to increase the number of available intensive-care unit beds in the province to 130, up from 79. The expectation is that COVID-19 patients may soon be using 80 of those beds, with 50 beds remaining to care for other critical patients.
The SHA is also working to increase hospital capacity outside the province's ICUs so that an additional 255 COVID patients could be treated at any given time.
And while the health authority works to increase its capacity to care for COVID-positive patients, it is temporarily scaling back non-critical and elective services.
The SHA says it is committed to maintaining services for mental health, addictions and early childhood immunizations. Other patients, however, may be contacted about postponing or rescheduling procedures they had planned.
"Saskatchewan residents depend on our services, so slowing down some services is not an easy choice," said Scott Livingstone, SHA president and CEO. "But we are challenged to meet the growing COVID demand while facing an increasing shortage of dedicated and highly skilled health-care professionals."
The SHA will also be moving some patients from hospitals near their homes to other facilities in the province, which will help the hardest-hit areas.
These types of measures mean the health-care system will have more capacity to care for the most seriously ill.
But infectious disease specialist Dr. Alex Wong says the changes only go so far.
"We don't have a lot of additional capacity," he said. "And our capacity to create additional surge beds — and, more importantly, staff those beds — is really, really limited."
Wong says the provincial health-care system is already under "significant strain" due to the rising COVID-19 case numbers, with multiple hospitals on bypass and not able to take more patients.
He says stronger measures need to be taken at the provincial level before the crisis descends on hospitals.
"It's very clear where this is all headed," said Wong. "In the end, if we do not have critical-care capacity, ICU capacity or even hospital capacity, then that means that we are not going to be able to offer the high-quality service that everyone deserves."
More than 3.99 million British Columbians — 86.1 per cent of those eligible and 77.5 per cent of B.C.’s population — have had at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
More than 3.64 million people — 78.6 per cent of those eligible and 70.8 per cent of B.C.’s population — have been fully immunized.
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