Canada admits it isnt ready for coronavirus and hospitals ill equipt

“Every health care system has limits,” Bogoch says. “The question is, if we start getting inundated with cases, how stretched can we get?”

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Many emergency-room doctors argue Canada’s ERs are already as stretched as they can get and are worried about what would happen if they suddenly had to start treating COVID-19 cases en masse.

Dr. Alan Drummond of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, who works at the hospital in Perth, Ont., says he doesn’t want to fearmonger, especially considering all the lessons Canada has learned from past outbreaks, but the reality of life in the ER gives him pause.

“Our day-to-day experience in crowded hospitals, unable to get the right patient in the right bed on a day-to-day basis ? makes us really question what the integrity of our health-care system would be like in a major severe pandemic,” Drummond says.

He envisions that a disease like COVID-19, if it spread widely, would have a major impact, including the possibility of cancelled surgeries and moving stable patients out of hospitals who would otherwise stay.

“I think there would have to be hard decisions made about who lives and who dies, given our limited availability by both speciality and (intensive-care) beds and we would probably see some degree of health-care rationing,” he says.

Sorry for broken link. Dont knownwhy I cant copy paste here anymore. Is it because I'm an AC?

Just google coronavirus canada. From global news

Bump and pin please

Here's your link OP...

[link to globalnews.ca (secure)]

Thanks.

This is bad

This goes for all western nations.

If yer from the Vancouver area, please note this, that I just saw on the pinned mega-thread:

[link to www.citynews1130.com (secure)]

Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Tri-Cities parents warned people with contact to COVID-19 may have attended school

"They don't appear to have the new coronavirus but were with someone who has it. "

Dori Day, Port it, or I will sink it.

Of course they dont appear to have it. Nobody appears to have it until symptoms show. These people are going to get a lot of people killed

It's funny that in the letter the risk remains low and the bit about being asymptomatic.
These health officials are behind the ball.
People are shedding the virus with no symptoms. The risk will remain low until it isnt.