Officials in Alberta say that ICUs are only able to keep up with the new influx because so many critically ill patients are dying.
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Well stop firing Healthcare workers
@Cat in the Hat well then we will have an even worse staff shortage. You want that?? Not so smart are u
I know 2 nurses with natural immunity which are being suspended. This is ridiculous
@Baerz No one has natural immunity to COVID-19. It’s literally in the name: novel coronavirus.
@Cat in the Hat im talking about natural immunity aquired after beating the virus derp derp derp
@Baerz you are right, natural immunity 13 times stronger than Vax(study from Israel).
Wow, it’s almost like cutting the health care budget had consequences.
@Keith D don’t jump to conclusions, I’m betting they are vaxxed , that’s the issue , doubtful they’d disclose that
@Mitch Zurbrigg ask you kids grandchildren when they’re done paying Trudeau’s debt
@Li F you definitely aren’t Canadian
Every time when Kenny planned to cut the health budget, the pandemic number soared outrageously. I don’t know why.
@Keith D 🤔 near 100% recovery. I think not, nice try though
Reality of our situation?????
We have drifted so far away from reality it is pathetic & sad .
@Claude Grenier Your thoughts are highly unattractive.
@Kent Clark yep no health cards for the voluntary unvaccinated enough is enough
@Home Alone and then u would go out of your way to take a hospital bed from someone that deserves it. Half wit
@marcwalbaum why do you think I would end up in the hospital? Chances of that are extremely low.
@Home Alone “we” are going to find out soon… looks like Alberta is making so great choices right now. I hope you don’t take up space in another provinces hospital where a contributing member of society needs a bed. You absolut joke.
Got to love how that voice breaks at just the right moment to tell all..
@Nunya Biznizz she was my paediatric kidney transplant doctor
She is not lazy nor does she have choppy English, she is one of the most caring doctors I’ve ever had…she means what she is saying
@Nunya Biznizz we should nominate you to be AHS’s next CEO.
@Nunya Biznizz You must be a very unhappy person
Ya what an act! Hyperventilating and all hahaha. Instead of testing sights they’re just stuffing them in the hospital.
@Emogirlkickass sure
A prevention and outpatient protocol might prevent hospitalization, coupled with early treatment of symptomatic patients. Protocols that some of the most published Physician’s in the world have been using since at least Nov. 2020 to reduce the impact and save lives. Check out FLCCC (USA), CCC (CAN), BIRD (UK).
Exactly.
Also exactly. India is a great example. They are doing fantastically well. It’s too bad North American health care is so far behind the times. They are not world leaders in health care any more.
@Nancy Wilcocks Now India leads the world.
@Nancy Wilcocks India isn’t as corrupt.
Israel is an excellent example of what not to do
Maybe start some therapeutics that work and keep the patients out of the ICU?
that would remove emergency powers. We can’t have that!
Go home take some Tylenol and come back to the ER when it gets worse.
Trust the science!
We are in this together!
2 weeks to flatten the curve!
@Milk Tobo Seriously. What happened to eating healthy, stay active, don’t smoke and don’t drink alcohol.
Prevention might be a better idea. Masks, lockdowns etc….
@FlaviusMaximus1967 No thanks.
@FlaviusMaximus1967 Looks like that really makes a difference….ROFL
What happened to the > 1000 ICU beds available by April 2021 that were promised by Kenney back in Sept 2020??? Also still have yet to see the AHS ICU numbers match the ones read out in these notices, seem to be around 50 cases over the AHS number every time.
@Stewart D so you are opposed to them doing what they said they would and increase capacity?
>1000 ICU beds, He probably said that after drinking half a bottle of whiskey..😄
@Tyler Hunt whiskey… more like smirnoff ice hahaha
@Cam Bolton Hopefully you are hiding under your bed with your muzzle on just waiting for your momma to give you your soother
ICU beds are not the solution. Even if you managed to survive ICU, the road to recovery is long and painful.
maybe they shouldn’t have closed down the beds in the butterdome, sounds like if they didn’t would help this a lot , i would think
@Faizan Malik because they fired front line workers ……there is enough staff , just they got fired , doesn’t make sense to fire nurses in the middle of a so called pandemic
@Faizan Malik there’s more than enough. We just keep too many useless under qualified nurses because the union protects them.
Get rid of overtime pay, eliminate part time options, only full time, eliminate low tier nurses who only got their job because “diversity”, and hire more nurses with qualifications for icu. Eliminate the bloat of management, and contract out non medical positions like janitors to qualified companies.
It’s not rocket appliance
Helloooo!! Conservatism
Or could have just used treatments that work in stead of acting like they’re dangerous.
@Mikee95 hospitals can’t insure unvaccinated employees. Welcome to 2021 dude, it ain’t the 1900s.
Apparently there is already 8000 beds available according to a Alberta doctor but Alberta doesn’t have the staff to support it because of all the cut backs.
@youpplarestupid And others walked off because of the work load. I have an ICU nurse girlfriend, I hear about what’s going on all the time. What do you think is causing the work load?
@Alternity666 the shortage of staff that got fired for not taking the vax , my friend is a doctor at st michael hospital thats what I’m hearing and seeing , they need every staff member possible vaxxed or unvaxxed because the fact is , there is a large population who took the vax that will need urgent care in the near future and there won’t be enough staff because a large portion took it aswell, this is going to be bad for everyone
@Alternity666 what hospital does your girlfriend work at ?
@youpplarestupid hello there,why do you think the vaxxed will need urgent care?,I’m against the mandates,and we already had covid so we didn’t get the Vax because I do believe in natural immunity,but my daughters will be losing activities do you know what can we do?
@Carmina Nuñez sorry as for the urgent care part of your question, these new technology is a gene therapy ,causing blood clots and inflation around the heart , and the long term effects are still unknown, the fda tests new drugs for 10 years before they approve human trials , however under the emergency authorization they can skip the trials because there is no known treatments (so they claim) to inoculate everybody , if ppl knew about this then they would be subjected to rigorous testing which would fail standards thus far, I wish I could have a real conversation and explain in more detail , I suggest researching more , and just make an informed decision
I wonder if funeral homes are overwhelmed ?
99.7% recovery. .03 mortality. Real serious situation. Give me a break.🚽
@Mr. “X” much higher now that the deaths have plateau’d
Nope not at all. Been involved in the industry, on a national level, for almost a quarter of a century. You are either being lied to or you are making this up.
@Exiled New Yorker either you are being lied to or you are making a false claim.
@Exiled New Yorker 2020 was the slowest year I have ever experienced.
If It was a real big issue you wouldn’t be firing the doctors and nurses.
@Stewart D Go read the Ontario justice centre lawsuit against the Ontario government. You signed up to be a test subject without pay. You should join the lawsuit.
@ed bloom You want someone to starve for not getting an experimental inoculation. How disgusting.
@Exiled New Yorker Fresh air?
@Stewart D If the oil change has a chance of ruining your car and potential long term consequences that you can’t account for because it hasn’t been tested long term yet then yeah this is the same
@ed bloom you are talking like a little t.v. so sad
Is anyone else wondering why an entire province can only handle 200 some icu patients
Well when you fire half of your staff because you’re understaffed is a real genius move
@J Not when you don’t have a car.
@Sally Evans Yeah, I forgot about the small towns, of course.
Probably all they need in normal times…
@Jeremy Mac Donald unless you live in new York or Michigan
if there was only a way we could have prevented this….
All the funding but yet in almost 2 years couldn’t build more hospitals that we needed before the pandemic. Where does all these billions of $ go? 😱
They lined the pockets of someone
They go for Canada’s proxy wars and to buy votes for Justin
Lol so no one remembers waiting 10 hours to get into emergency before this pandemic started? I do.
only 10 hours? you got lucky.
I spent 4 hours in an ER only to find out they didn’t register me properly and then another 3 1/2 hours waiting to get put into the secondary waiting room to get checked by a nurse, another 3 hours waiting in that waiting room for a nurse, and then another 4 to see a doctor. This was because I was having heart issues and my BP was severely hypertensive. The Canadian healthcare system is complete trash.
I do as well. Especially on weekends
Last time I took my daughter to the ER a month ago wer were in and out with x-rays and a half cast on her arm in UNDER an hour, one other person in the ER. Not too over worked I would say, at least not in that ER
@canadian guy 1981 Wow! Almost unheard of before March of 2019.
Imagine if we were in real war with thousands of injured patients , how will they handle .! Godforbid
It seems the beurcratic system is failing
Beds lined up in stadiums, inside churches and church halls, athletic facilities, it’s no fun, but possible…
Well of they did Brochoscopies like a south African Dr. Was doing in the beginning along with the plethora of suppressed medications especially monoclonal antibodies, maybe the death rate would be lower. Medicine nowadays is so interesting.
Buddy owns a funeral home in Edmonton – says the only increase they’ve seen in death is that of truth.
No he doesn’t and no he didn’t.
Many in the industry feel something strange has been going on since last year.
@Don Kee FU
@Rick Mars No thanks
Two crappy view hosts got the “covid” both fully quackcinated.
ITS TIME TO MAKE COVID A NON ISSUE …like many countries are doing make “natural immunity” the dominant topic.