ICYMI: COVID-19: Sask death rate doubled in second week of February
It is the first full week of new COVID-19 data provided to the public since the provincial government stopped daily reporting on deaths, hospitalizations and case numbers.
Dr. Cory Neudorf is a professor of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan and the interim senior medical health officer with the Saskatchewan Health Authority.Hospitalizations are weighing down a health system already battered by nearly two years of the pandemic. Saskatoon’s intensive care units were not taking patients as of Wednesday morning.Article content
“Surgery postponements could also be due to a service disruption or slowdown caused by staffing issues, including illnesses or redeployment to support surge demands,” said John Ash, the SHA emergency operations centre’s incident commander, in a written statement.
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