during tuesday’s lengthy covid-19 update , premier jason kenney pointed out that while only 17 per cent of eligible albertans are unvaccinated, they make up 92 per cent of all intensive-care patients clogging our hospitals, proving that this devastating fourth covid-19 wave really is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
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dr. edward les , a pediatric emergency room physician in calgary and a clinical professor at the university of calgary , says while all people should be treated with love and compassion — including those who refuse to get vaccinated — “there’s a component to this discussion that receives short shrift, time and time again — and that is that the necessary medical and surgical care of those who are responsibly immunized is being severely curtailed by the pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
ward 6 coun. jeff davison, who is running to be mayor in the oct. 18 municipal election, recently revealed that his six-year-old daughter’s much-needed kidney surgery was delayed.
davison confirmed to postmedia reporter meghan potkins that his little girl suffers from a rare condition known by the medical acronym vacterl association.
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he says he has a friend whose bile duct cancer surgery was postponed.
as a survivor of triple-negative breast cancer myself, i fully understand the anxiety that such a diagnosis causes for the patient and their family.
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les says while he agrees with my tuesday column calling on us to narrow the divide between those of us who are vaccinated and those who are not, he wants to qualify that support.
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