RT @matpVI
exhibit A for those saying the pandemic is over

(hint, it isn't)

and will never be close to 'over' unless we bring in mandated protections and stop transmissions forming into new, more evasive, and deadlier, variants

#CDNpoli #BCpoli #QUEpoli #ONpoli

https://twitter.com/joaquinlife/status/1610021370569846787

5) "Looks like signs of another #COVID wave in the ER," a source told me about the situation at the Lakeshore General Hospital in Montreal's suburb of Pointe-Claire. "More patients with COVID than usual, plus we had three with influenza the other night."

Via @aderfel

#covidcanada #quepoli #onpoli #canada #cdnpoli

4) And how were Quebec's hospitals doing on Friday morning? The province's emergency rooms were overflowing by an average of 122%, despite government measures to ease overcrowding. The ER at the largest pediatric hospital, Sainte-Justine, was filled to 119% capacity.

Via @aderfel
#covidcanada #canada #quepoli #onpoli #covid

3) The number of health-care workers absent due to #COVID is also on the rise for a fourth day in a row in Quebec, climbing by 94 to 3,749. It bears reiterating that such absenteeism is placing the province's already under-resourced hospitals under even more strain.

Via @aderfel

#covidcanada #onpoli #cdnpoli #quepoli