Paper hearts form an impromptu memorial for COVID-19 victims at Memorial Park in Winnipeg on May 23, 2021.Alyssa Isford’s darkest moment came in a hospital parking lot – a doctor was assessing her wheezing toddler while her husband, Kris Isford, lay in an intensive-care bed.
“We’ve been so careful this whole time,” she said. “But if somebody gets it in your family and you live in the same house, the rest of the family is going to get it.”critical-care physician and infectious-diseases expert, said he’s seeing greater transmission within families as new, more infectious variants take hold in the province, which is now North America’s COVID-19 hot spot.
“It’s been thought that young people were relatively resistant to severe disease – and that’s probably the case for the original strains of virus that we were dealing with – but B.1.1.7 is substantially more infectious, and for that reason, kids and young people are getting sicker,” Dr. Kumar said. “Patients are telling us that they are getting sick at their work site, and that this is despite following all the protocols that public health has asked them to,” Dr. Orr said. “And their conclusion seems reasonable.”
“I think there’s lots of reasons why folks haven’t gotten vaccinated: Were they even eligible? Were they on a waiting list?” Dr. Shaw said. “I think this potentially leads us down this slippery slope of victim-blaming and questions about who deserves care at a time when we should be expecting more from government.”Ms. Isford said her husband wanted to get the vaccine as soon as he could, but didn’t qualify at the time he was exposed to the virus at his workplace.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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