Three Hundred and Tenth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
this unvaxxed patient
grasps my hand, mumbling
about death ...
exhausted, I only think
of the patients next door
FYI: CTV News, Jan. 13: Inside an ICU where 70 per cent of COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated
In Canada the unvaccinated make up less than 13 per cent of the population.
At Toronto General, which cares for the sickest COVID-19 patients, 70 per cent in the intensive care unit are not vaccinated.
“In our units we're seeing about two thirds of our patients are relatively young, unvaccinated and are showing up with severe disease,” Ferguson said.
It’s frustrating for health teams.
“This is happening, it's real and we're continuing to see it, and I’ve got to say, it is very discouraging to continue to see this,” Granton said.
Added: Three Hundred and Eleventh Entry
social distancing across this endless blue a pair of hang-gliders
Yahoo News Canada, Feb. 4: 'Slap in the face of every health worker’: Canadians, top doctors respond to convoy protest threats, suggestion to avoid scrubs in streets, https://ca.yahoo.com/news/toronto-freedom-convoy-protest-healthcare-workers-covid19-vaccine-mandates-174741183.html
ReplyDeleteDr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, stressed that we need to be "grateful" for healthcare workers, after hospital employees in Toronto were advised to not to wear anything to identify them has health workers this weekend, due to a possible "freedom convoy" protest.
"We need to really be grateful and appreciate our health workers and our public health workers because they’ve been working day and night for over two years to try and keep all of us safe, and it’s unacceptable, any kind of hate, any kind of violence should not be tolerated," Dr. Tam said at a press conference on Friday.