COVID-19‘s third wave, doctors and nurses are warning that without proper precautions, the province’s health-care system could be hit even harder than it was when hundreds of new cases were being reported a day last fall.At the peak of Manitoba’s second wave, intensive care units swelled with as many 129 people in need of critical care at one time.
As of Thursday, when health officials announced the province’s first case of the highly contagious P.1 variant, 91 patients were already filling those beds.
Manitoba reports first case of Brazil P.1 COVID-19 variant That’s worrying for Dr. Anand Kumar, an intensive care physician and infectious disease specialist working in Winnipeg, who says hospitals are still struggling to care for those.