ER doctor on rise in COVID-19 variants: ‘This is really scary’

Emergency Room physician Dr. Lisa Salamon says with the growth of new variants, there is a race to get vaccines before more new variants arrive in Canada.

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56 comments

  1. It’s why we don’t make one-time vaccines for colds and flus, they mutate every year and the hospitals get inundated every year, but Canada’s yearly death rate trend did not go up in 2020 compared to years before – because this is a power grab and was not a pandemic until WHO changed the definition of pandemic to not include high casualties.

    1. @garry w every week a new dr is trying to make a name for his/herself. They must make extra cash for going on tv giving their opinion. That’s my point.

    2. @John Oliveira well arent you tv since you think above every1 else come tthe ttalk big shot!right how much are yiou making talk like you expert right?ytou must gett few 100s right

    1. so we just believe you?why arent you tv giving out daily update since you think higher up thern her right?youi create psuedo arguement

    1. @garry wNo I don’t want to be above her, she don’t turn my fancy. I do think your elevator needs service.

  2. Hugely concerned oh i’m so scared frightening chills are causing goose bumps. I’m shaking uncontrolably, sick to my stomach. I can’t find alfredo sauce anywhere.

  3. I’m fatigued with all this…I’m pro mask, stay at home etc… but this has gone too far… scare scare – lets cut out the crap, and it’ll be what it’s going to be.

    1. Masks trap bacteria not virus, isolation reduces immune system. 99% survival. GM0 vakzine… it’s really a coup

    2. @Tzara somebody should tell all the drs and health care professionals who operate with masks on, dentists…they must be dropping like flies

    3. @Heywoodj1969 Why don’t you try some critical thinking? Don’t be so reductionist, it doesn’t help your argument one bit.

      Co-vidiot pro maskers show how far we’ve fallen from a functional society…

    4. @Derek Woodford pro-maskers? Are nurses pro mask when they use ppe to protect themselves? Are our dentists or doctors pro mask when they use masks to perform patient care?

      Wearing a mask is the least thing you can do to keep yourself, your family and your community members safe. Not everything is about you. We live in a society, not in individual islands onto ourselves.

    1. A small change? A virus that is 25-45% more contagious, that has already changed its spike protein is on the verge of becoming a new strain and the more biomass it’s given, the higher the chance of change…

    2. @K V guess Fauci should have listened to the medical community and ceased experiments with the viral gain of function…

    1. @garry w I also did my master’s in bioethics at MUN. Didn’t get a designation in epi although I did take some courses. I focused on genetics.

  4. Can we go back to where the environment was the Worlds biggest concern, or better yet, can we move forward to where over-population is the Worlds biggest problem.

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