Quebec's healthcare system is under enormous pressure. Lawyers Brigitte Brabant and Nathalie Johnson argue the province needs a public consultation on the government's proposed triage system to answer the unanswerable question of who deserves care.
Quebec reported Sunday that 242,714 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 in the province, and 9,055 people have died due to the disease since the start of the pandemic. Hospitalizations went down by 14.
Officers in the Quebec provincial police's organized crime squad have twice broken up gatherings in January and handed out over $32,000 in fines for violating public health measures to members affiliated with the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
A week into the Quebec-wide curfew, the province reported Saturday that 240,970 people have now tested positive for COVID-19 in the province, and 9,005 people have died due to the disease since the start of the pandemic.
With a dire nurse shortage, much worse than last spring, the province has asked students and even doctors to help. But all the various strategies won't necessarily help fill the need in the ICU, which has highly specialized staff.
The rise in the number of COVID-19 infections since the holidays also means an exponential increase in those who have been in contact with an infected person, and who therefore must also be traced by public health -- which has made for a lot of pressure on the system.
Quebec doctors could soon have to make hard life-and-death decisions for COVID-19 patients and others in intensive care, deciding based on age group and how likely they are to survive, among other factors. Some say the province needs to do more to avoid entering this stage.
A temporary production drop by Pfizer is going to hit Quebec hard, along with the rest of the country, with nearly half the province's forecasted doses between now and Feb. 8 not arriving on schedule.
No matter what year it is, fall tends to bring a slew of coughing and sneezing, but if you're feeling under the weather in 2020, it's important to know the difference between the symptoms of a cold, influenza, seasonal allergies, or the novel coronavirus.
The novel coronavirus can live on different surfaces, sometimes for several hours, after an infected person coughs or sneezes on them. CTVNews.ca takes a look at some of these surfaces and common areas, and how long the virus can live on them.
