“The care that is being provided — as hard as we try — it’s still unsafe care because there just aren’t enough of us to provide it.”
Vaccine uptake is low in the province, which she said also has the highest influenza activity in Canada.
On top of that, she said many of the unvaccinated children with influenza she has treated are experiencing really long fevers. “For the sake of Alberta’s children, and all Albertans, it is imperative that our government cease treating this situation as if it were a political inconvenience and address it immediately as the public health crisis that it is,” wrote union president Heather Smith.
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