Healthcare workers

• ‘Nightmares and flashbacks’: Experts say COVID-19 patients are experiencing PTSD

  Experts say recovered COVID-19 patients are getting PTSD, especially for those who have had severe, debilitating cases. People are having nightmares and experiencing more anxiety.

  Health

  Mar 28
• ‘Burnout is real’: COVID-19 pandemic takes mental health toll on health-care workers

  'The challenge with burnout is that it's often under the covers and not really apparent,' says one doctor of the physical and mental toll COVID-19 is taking on health-care workers.

  Health

  Mar 11
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• Front-line health workers in Canada look back on ‘rollercoaster’ year of COVID-19

  From long hours at work to isolation from loves ones, doctors and nurses share their experience about what life has been like tackling the coronavirus over the past year.  

  Health

  Mar 10
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• Quebec health workers to wear N95 masks more often, but studies unclear on benefits

  Quebec's workplace safety board is requiring health-care workers wear N95 masks in areas where there are patients who have tested positive for COVID-19.

  Health

  Feb 9
• Montreal’s Décarie Square, Bill-Durnan Arena set to host mass COVID-19 vaccinations

  The CIUSSS West-Central Montreal announced on Feb. 8 that three mass vaccination sites will be opening in a shopping centre, an arena and an office building. 

  Health

  Feb 8
• ‘We are not superhuman’: Health-care workers plead for more mental health support

  While health-care workers have been celebrated as heroes, experts say they are also just as vulnerable to mental health hardships as any other person.

  Lifestyle

  Jan 16
• ‘Security blanket’: Coronavirus vaccines offer hope to health workers, families

  A COVID-19 vaccine won’t solve all the problems, front-line workers say, but many are eager to get vaccinated so they can feel safer at work.

  Health

  Dec 24, 2020
• Research finds stress, anxiety climbing for health-care workers during COVID-19 pandemic

  Professor Jason Harley led the research and said the increases in stress, anxiety and burnout were “statistically significant."

  Health

  Dec 18, 2020
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• Edmonton-raised artist Tim Okamura creates portrait series honouring health-care workers

  Tim Okamura is using his craft to honour health-care workers, after watching a hospital near his New York home become overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases.

  Features

  Nov 16, 2020
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• Coronavirus outbreaks declared at Yorkton, Sask., hospital, high school, gym

  Outbreaks were flagged on Sunday at: Yorkton Regional Health Centre, Yorkton Regional High School and Pumphouse Athletic Club. 

  Health

  Sep 28, 2020