Compared to the US, British Columbia (Canada) does not have a lot of COVID cases or deaths, but the local reporting is that the number of cases we do have is stressing the hospital system to the point at which people can die waiting for care in the Emergency Room. Here's a report of such a death from the large hospital nearest to me;
This woman waited to be seen for 6 hours in the ER. She died in front of family members there in the waiting room. It turned out she had critically low potassium levels, easily fixed with an IV bag, but the hospital lab couldn't get the labs done because the workload is very high.
Conditions like these indicate to me that there is an actual health crisis going on. Whether it can be fixed by more COVID vaccines is another question...
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/70-year-old-patient-in-kamloops-emergency-room-1.6169654
This woman waited to be seen for 6 hours in the ER. She died in front of family members there in the waiting room. It turned out she had critically low potassium levels, easily fixed with an IV bag, but the hospital lab couldn't get the labs done because the workload is very high.
Conditions like these indicate to me that there is an actual health crisis going on. Whether it can be fixed by more COVID vaccines is another question...