‘I want to have a great summer like everybody else’: Alberta ICU doctor on what he anticipates this summer in Alberta

Some doctors have been raising concerns that Alberta’s reopening plan is moving too quickly. Kim Smith spoke with Dr. Darren Markland, intensive care physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, about what he’s seeing in the ICU and what he anticipates this summer will be like in Alberta.

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