Hospitals overflowing with the flu, covid and other respiratory diseases and Alberta doesn't want to encourage people to get vaccinated to reduce infections and severe disease? Huh?
Preventative vaccines are the best deal going if you want to save lives, money and reduce severe illness and the number of people in hospital.
But the TBA antivaxers don't give much thought to what's good healthcare policy. They would rather cater to the small number of flat earth antivaxers!
You better hope you or one of your family members don't get sick and need to go the hospital over the holidays.
And if you do, don't mention that you didn't get vaccinated because you don't think healthcare science matters.
"Paul Parks, president of the Alberta Medical Association, also spoke at the news conference. He said the new funding announced Thursday is an “essential first step” toward fixing what’s wrong in health care. But he pushed back against the Premier’s comments on vaccination. “I don’t want to debate which province has better influenza immunization rates,” he said.
He stressed that vaccines protect people and the entire health care system. He said Alberta hospitals are overflowing with patients sick with respiratory illnesses, largely influenza, and that the cases are severe.
“We’re seeing two-year-olds out there now that are getting influenza and having encephalitis, which is an infection of the brain that may actually be life-threatening, and if they survive they may never be normal again,” he said, adding that some adult patients may require heart transplants because of organ damage from the virus."
Preventative vaccines are the best deal going if you want to save lives, money and reduce severe illness and the number of people in hospital.
But the TBA antivaxers don't give much thought to what's good healthcare policy. They would rather cater to the small number of flat earth antivaxers!
You better hope you or one of your family members don't get sick and need to go the hospital over the holidays.
And if you do, don't mention that you didn't get vaccinated because you don't think healthcare science matters.
"Paul Parks, president of the Alberta Medical Association, also spoke at the news conference. He said the new funding announced Thursday is an “essential first step” toward fixing what’s wrong in health care. But he pushed back against the Premier’s comments on vaccination. “I don’t want to debate which province has better influenza immunization rates,” he said.
He stressed that vaccines protect people and the entire health care system. He said Alberta hospitals are overflowing with patients sick with respiratory illnesses, largely influenza, and that the cases are severe.
“We’re seeing two-year-olds out there now that are getting influenza and having encephalitis, which is an infection of the brain that may actually be life-threatening, and if they survive they may never be normal again,” he said, adding that some adult patients may require heart transplants because of organ damage from the virus."
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