Closeup of a hand holding a positive COVID 19 test. Charlottetown, PEI. March 15, 2024.
A year's worth of respiratory virus data for Alberta reveals, once again, COVID-19 is far deadlier than the flu.A COVID-19 test shows a positive result in this file photo. In Alberta over the past year, 6,070 people were hospitalized for COVID. A year's worth of respiratory virus data for Alberta reveals, once again, COVID-19 is far deadlier than the flu.
"We're seeing people who have COVID and all of the sudden are coming into hospital with blood clots, heart attacks, strokes. So we still are very much living in a COVID world," said Duggan.Alberta's ER staffing crunch getting worse in big cities and small, doctors warn "We also have that at-risk population people on chemotherapy, people post-transplant — people really who are immuno-suppressed and are at risk — or the frail elderly who we see," said Duggan, the president-elect of the Alberta Medical Association.shows 632 of the people who died of COVID were ages 70 and up, 81 were between 50 and 69 and 15 were in the 20 to 49 age range.
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