‘The West Block’ host Mercedes Stephenson joins Saskatchewan Health Authority Chief Medical Officer Dr. Susan Shaw to discuss what she calls a crisis in the province’s health-care system. Saskatchewan is seeing record-setting hospitalizations in a Delta variant-fuelled fourth wave, and Shaw doesn’t see a plateau coming in the near future. She is hopeful the newly introduced proof of vaccination system will help slow growing COVID case rates in Saskatchewan.
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