took the podium to announce the province’s first presumptive case of COVID-19.The pandemic has since impacted every single Albertan.
A year later, it still isn’t over.“I think we all naively thought, ‘Oh, three months or six months or nine months,'” COVID-19 ward physician Dr.
Neeja Bakshi said, reflecting back.“I think by October, November, there was this realization this is going on a bit and we’ve got to buckle in and figure out how to manage.”And it’s true — Albertans had to adapt quickly.Less than two weeks after that first announced case, Premier Jason Kenney declared a provincial public health state of emergency.