Calgary hospitals are experiencing a surge in patients with respiratory viruses, including flu, RSV, and COVID-19. The increase in cases is attributed to the holiday season and the sharing of viruses among families and friends.
Its cold and flu season and Winnipeg hospitals are seeing a surge of patients with respiratory viruses . Katherine Dornian reports on how they're handling it.“All my grandbabies, all my daughters and their families have had all of this stuff. We just keep sharing it back and forth,” said Calgarian Ross Gilker about his experience with this year’s cold andA persistent cough and congestion lingering for weeks are just some of the symptoms others told Global News they have experienced.
The latest numbers show between Dec. 22 and 28 there were 701 cases of the flu, 574 cases of respiratory syncytial visus and 376 of COVID.The latest information from the Alberta government’s respiratory virus dashboard, shows a big jump in the number of cases of influenza, covid and RSV over the past month.Mathieu Giroux, a pharmacist at Cambrian Pharmacy in Calgary, told Global News the number of cases seems to have spiked in the past two weeks.
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