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submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Emergency rooms across Canada are facing a growing crisis β€” staffing shortages, burnout, worsening wait times, closures, a lack of adequate funding and a surge of patients seeking urgent care threatening to overwhelm a system on the brink of collapse.

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[-] ppoint@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

And, of course, there's also prior Covid infection(s), which can wreck the immune system. Covid infection can make one more susceptible to other illness.

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