Largely spared during the first wave, Western Canada struggles to contain COVID-19 surge

Akshay Tandon has the latest on the COVID-19 surge in Alberta and B.C., where cases continue to rise and hospitals are under pressure.

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56 comments

    1. @John B I really hope you’re like 12 years old bc that was honestly one of the most ridiculous attempts at a comeback I’ve ever seen

    2. @abcdefg1392 give me proof look up Rocco Galati he is a Lawyer taking Justin to court ya he is one of the top 25 Lawyers in the world.

    1. @Jared Callahan It is known to be a super woke virus. Also conveniently spares you if you’re going to polls to vote!

    1. B.C. has two times the cases per capita than Ontario, yet she gets the Order of Canada?… who makes the rules for this?… what a joke!

    1. Troll. Flu hadn’t even arrived out west as of 2 wks ago. 17 cases in all of Canada. You always been delusional? I mean besides being fat.

    2. @ckendall67 That’s right. COVID is a glorified flu. If you are under 60 years of age, influenza and pneumonia was a greater risk last year than COVID is this year.

  1. Come on, governments, do something big. Declare ALL gatherings and locations to be “peaceful protests”, and the new case numbers will instantly go to 0. It worked in other countries.

    1. @alan4sure Australia, South Korea even here in Locarno 0 cases. Just because you have no education, doesn’t mean everyone is like you. Cheers

    2. @꧁Ɱ͓̽ç͓̽Ͳ͓̽Ƒ͓̽ɾ͓̽օ͓̽ʂ͓̽է͓̽꧂ If you had any education, you would realize that what you said means absolutely nothing in any way at all. Do you even know what numbers are used for? Or are you a Ben SHapiro fan?

  2. I think it’s pretty well contained, it’s been almost a year now and I still don’t know anyone whose even had it.

    1. @Lauren Miller mom’s a nurse. M in law is a nurse. 2 cousins are nurses. Ex is way up in the nurses union. You have barked up the wrong nurse tree here liar!!

  3. Hurry western Canadians sell your homes before market collapses and you get 15-20 cents on the dollar for your property.

    1. Don’t forget to invest your returns, outside of Canada because by the time our government is finished, so will be our dollar be ( 2 cents, which is what our dollar will be worth).

    2. the worst affected are those who can’t get access to basic healthcare due to reserving space for an expected influx of covid patients – that isnt happen

    1. @mike s delusional or what😁😁 every time you post, you’re stupider than previously. Congrats, you’re on a roll. For once.

    2. @alan4sure they laid off 10,000 health care jobs in Alberta since the “pandemic” started. FACT. You say I’m the stupid one , crawl back under your bridge , troll.

    1. I had it last year dec -end of Jan I was deathly ill couldn’t breath non stop coughing I was also pregnant but lost the baby last April

  4. Must’ve turned up the cycle numbers on the PCR test to catch up with the rest of Canada….eh?!? Shape up, this is silly now…read these comments.

    1. @Three Monkeys I know his English is broken, but he has a point.
      Google farmer protest in India. 1 million farmers are protesting from last two months, no masks, no social distancing.
      You can call them fools, but explain to me why none of them is dropping dead or even checking into hospitals with any symptoms. Think about it for a minute.

  5. Why would we struggle to contain something with a 0.9% cfr. <0.1% for the general pop, 18.5% for the elderly which for some reason the government won't take enough action on.

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