On Monday, the premier said first dose appointments would be paused due to vaccine supply issues from Pfizer but that second dose appointments would not be cancelled.

Jason Kenney said they will be "quickly deployed" to high-risk residents in long-term care and designated supportive living facilities.

Dr. Branko Braam says the situation has become so dire, the U of A Hospital has opened a "fourth COVID ward" and asked kidney disease health-care workers to help staff it.

There are 682 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 124 of whom are in intensive care. 

A nurse practitioner and fourth year medical student from Edmonton is sharing her experience inside a hospital's intensive care unit.

UNA "strongly opposes" the draft standards and is worried about their impacts on nurses' freedom of speech and ability to advocate for good health policy.

Alberta's governing NDP says draft policy ideas put forward by the Opposition United Conservative Party are risky and would benefit the wealthy, but the UCP calls that baseless fearmongering.