This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu, seen here in Ottawa on Feb. 24, 2020, said on Wednesday that Canadians should ensure they have an adequate supply of food and their prescription medications and follow advice about frequent hand washing and staying home when sick.
This would involve testing a large number of people, such as patients who visit clinics in major cities, those who go to the hospital with unexplained severe respiratory illness, or those who test negative for the flu, Dr. McCready said.
Dr. McCready said she believes hospitals may have enough ventilators, but need guidance on how to make difficult choices about how to assign priority to patients who are critically ill with COVID-19.“We need to be thinking about these decisions now, before I have 10 people in my emergency department who range from 30 to 90 years old who all need a ventilator and we only have five ventilators,” she said.
Without such a change, N95 masks and isolation rooms, which are needed in many areas of health care, could be in very short supply soon, which is why hospitals need to use them wisely, Dr. McCready said.
The federal government put in place emergency preparedness & pandemic planning just after SARS. Provinces, large municipalities & hospitals too. These plans are updated as needed. Fed Ministers have authority to invoke certain powers (supply chain, labour, quarantine etc) quickly
Silly experts, we are totally prepared! We found all these positive patients in just two weeks after they arrived! We are also tracing the people that the victims came in contact with, awesome right? We will soon find them all, you just wait and see.
I should say the potential carriers can help us remove the illegal baricades of those terrorizing the nation!
Exactly indeed, please take immediate action to monitor international travelers from pandemic areas, I.e. China, Korea Iran and etc, please hurry up!!’
Funny 2 weeks ago she was saying we had nothing to worry about, I guess she believed the numbers coming out of China, I strongly feel our government let us down with the lack of a strong response
Two gross errors in the article 1. Not just contagious through droplets. The WHO confirmed this is aerosolized and airborne. 2. Poor reporting to ask people to just stock up on medication. Even PattyHajdu has recommended gathering non-perishables. Covid19Canada
The stupidity of these ministers. What irritated me was her advice to stock up so if you got sick you wouldn’t have to go out for groceries and spread disease. Lady, for many food banks don’t deliver.
This is certainly a different tune than the one they were singing just a few weeks ago
According to EIU and WHO, Canada is among the top most prepared countries in the world. Corona is not the issue. Politicizing the issue is the problem.
I’ve been following the news regarding this issue of at least 4 countries. Everyone thinks their government is handling the situation poorly. It’s scary to think how susceptible is our world’s health system.
They dragged their feet on this issue and now Telling people to stock pile while they watch our railroads (food suply) being blocked. I think they are hoping the viruses spreads and wipes put a portion of the population.
They are politicians what do you expect them to do?!
Ok tell us What can we do rather than wash our hands?
So we must self-prepared and staying at home passively. Gov can’t do nothing to prevent and cut this outsourced virus from spreading. Is this the function of Health dept CPHO_Canada CDNMinHealth ? I thought your responsibility is to protect Canadians from diseases.
We are truly screwed over run by trudeaus friends, all social services at max, supplying the handouts, immigration cannot track shit, gangs running rampant, indians controlling the rail, police have been handcuffed,judges all bought off, no gov leadership at all,anarchy to come
Everyone needs to start thinking for themselves when the elected officials feel it's better to keep us on a need to know basis. Have we learned anything from Wuhan. I know my freezers & cupboards are full. Wake up sheople
Does anyone have any confidence in this totally unqualified Minister of Health. A graphic designer?
Now it’s serious? Wasn’t last week. Another deflection.
Exercise, good diet, sleep, some vitamins should do the trick o and drink plenty of water
Sadly this was the US position on why our government—-
Please ask her to explain her $1.1M office expenditure. She is not up for this job. TrudeauIsNotFitForOffice
... after all was good two weeks ago
Quarantine Asians across Canada. Build a big beautiful wall around Scarborough, Richmond Hill and Markham. Bomb Vancouver. Problem solved. coronavirus
Just another totally underwhelming minister. What an awful time to have a government in training
We've already heard that from the Minister, whose photo here was a deliberate abuse by the Globe and Mail. She knows what she's doing and she's doing a damn good job!
Already here and the liberal_party is most likely happy to deflect from the shitnami of the protests/economy/anarchy across the country....change the narrative....of it involves a few thousand deaths, all good.....polls matter cdnpoli
I don't think you need to be an expert to think this.
I love the drastic measures
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