Alberta experts tap parents to create information for parenting with COVID
“We heard that parents were frustrated with the changing information, changing guidelines, etc., and where to go to and how to tell if something was reliable and valid, so we really tried in our tools to point parents to resources and organizations that are trustworthy.”
The videos are going to be added to the rotation of similar videos seen in more than 380 AHS facilities across the province. Health care systems in provinces like Manitoba and B.C. also use the videos the duo have helped create.“It is a network that partners general emergency departments with pediatric emergency departments,” Scott said. We’ve helped develop that knowledge mobilization initiative over the last decade-plus.
Hospitalizations and ICU cases were down from the week prior. Hospitalizations were down 35 to 1,042 this week, and ICU cases dipped by 8 to 38.The seven-day average positivity rate on PCR tests increased nearly half a per cent to 14.17 per cent, and the seven-day total of new documented cases was 1,147, 167 fewer from the previous week.PCR tests in Alberta are restricted to people with clinical risks or who live and/or work in high-risk settings.
On Monday, the Royal Alexandra Hospital had a unit declare an outbreak when seven patients tested positive.
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