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COVID-19: Alberta doctors call for more pandemic transparency

op-ed in the Edmonton Journal.“…we’re adjusting our contingency plans to add hundreds more spaces in addition to ICU,” Yiu admitted in the piece.Global News requested multiple interviews with Yiu to get details but she was not made available.On Tuesday, Global News asked chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw how many spaces were being added, where and who would staff them.“I don’t have details about Alberta Health Services’ acute care planning,” Alberta’s top doctor responded.She gave the same answer when asked if surgeries would have to be cancelled.“It’s clear that the system is in trouble, and for whatever reason, the government and/or AHS doesn’t want to communicate that to the people, the public,” Calgary emergency room doctor Joe Vipond said.

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COVID-19 rapid tests now available for all Albertans

COVID-19, free rapid tests are now available for all Albertans.Premier Jason Kenney announced a slight change to gathering restrictions for the holidays on Wednesday and also announced any Albertan with an Alberta health care card can receive a rapid testing kit. The kit includes five tests and is designed to be used every 72 hours.

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Alberta’s latest COVID-19 measures cause frustration for doctors, restaurant owners

COVID-19 is “grossly inadequate”.And Dr. Joe Vipond says a lot of unnecessary suffering and death is coming our way.“Our public health officials and our political leaders have learned nothing through four waves of COVID,” Vipond said, “and they continue to react inadequately.” Alberta introduces new COVID-19 measures, offers $100 incentive to increase vaccine numbers On Friday, the provincial government reinstated a province-wide mask mandate in all indoor public spaces and workplaces, except in classrooms, where decisions are being left to local school boards.All licensed bars, restaurants and pubs must stop alcohol sales by 10 p.m.

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‘We’re in big trouble’: Doctors worry Canada’s 4th wave of COVID-19 could be biggest yet

COVID-19 yet, unless governments act now to stop it.“We’re in big trouble,” said Dr. Joe Vipond, an emergency physician in Calgary and co-founder of Masks4Canada.His calculations show that Alberta’s case numbers are doubling roughly every 11 days.

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Calgary E.R. doctor alarmed kids will pay for Alberta’s plan to drop most COVID-19 restrictions

Calgary emergency room physician Dr. Joe Vipond says Alberta should be preparing more powerful public health restrictions — not removing the few the province has left — as cases of COVID-19 increase.

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Disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases in NE Calgary has doctors calling for more resources

16 local geographic areas.While most of the rest of the city has cases per 100,000 in the 100 and 200 range, Calgary Upper NE has 728 cases per 100,000.Lower NE sat at 320 per 100,000 people and Calgary Centre had 352 as of Monday evening.“These are incredibly high numbers,” Dr. Joe Vipond, an ER physician, said on Monday.He said a number of factors are at play.

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Alberta doctor calls for more restrictions, data as hospital COVID-19 outbreaks and case numbers spike

Lethbridge’s Chinook Regional Hospital are the latest acute care centres in the province to declare an outbreak of COVID-19, meaning nine of Alberta’s hospitals had outbreaks as of Thursday.For Rockyview emergency room physician Dr. Joe Vipond, the news of an outbreak a this hospital was “sad” but “not surprising.”“We have three out of the four major… adult hospitals in Calgary and all four hospitals in Edmonton having outbreaks, which is really concerning,” Vipond said Wednesday.

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Calgary doctor calls for urgency in hospital COVID-19 outbreak reports to prevent future situations

COVID-19 outbreak at the Misericordia Community Hospital in Edmonton could help put a stop to “recurring” outbreaks in the province’s primary health-care facilities.Dr.

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